Red blood cells washed each unit at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$404.78
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,404.30
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$449.83 with SoundPath vs $1,979.25 with Aetna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $449.83 | ↑ +11% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $449.83 | ↑ +11% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $454.33 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $463.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $463.32 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $463.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $481.32 | ↑ +19% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $485.82 | ↑ +20% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $485.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $490.31 | ↑ +21% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $517.30 | ↑ +28% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $517.30 | ↑ +28% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $709.09 | ↑ +75% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $854.68 | ↑ +111% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $863.67 | ↑ +113% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $890.66 | ↑ +120% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $964.84 | ↑ +138% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,011.10 | ↑ +150% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,030.09 | ↑ +154% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,053.23 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,076.88 | ↑ +166% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,181.15 | ↑ +192% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,184.65 | ↑ +193% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,394.77 | ↑ +245% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,419.45 | ↑ +251% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,494.18 | ↑ +269% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,494.18 | ↑ +269% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,682.36 | ↑ +316% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,979.25 | ↑ +389% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $669.20 | $368.58 – $405.44 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $303.10 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,689.80 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $669.20 | $368.58 – $1,367.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,594.87 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,689.80 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $272.80 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,556.89 |