Tilt table study at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$708.12
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.
$2,456.67
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.
$601.40 with SoundPath vs $2,646.16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $601.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $601.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $607.41 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $619.44 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $619.44 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $619.44 | ↓ -13% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $643.50 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $649.51 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $649.51 | ↓ -8% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $655.53 | ↓ -7% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $691.61 | ↓ -2% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $691.61 | ↓ -2% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,142.66 | ↑ +61% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,154.69 | ↑ +63% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,190.77 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,240.72 | ↑ +75% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,315.36 | ↑ +86% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,324.65 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,447.00 | ↑ +104% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,518.92 | ↑ +115% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,545.61 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,768.81 | ↑ +150% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,793.58 | ↑ +153% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,842.51 | ↑ +160% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,897.73 | ↑ +168% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,997.64 | ↑ +182% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,997.64 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,249.24 | ↑ +218% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,646.16 | ↑ +274% |
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Tilt table study at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,240.80 | $432.11 – $2,282.37 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,569.40 | $415.83 – $1,748.20 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,240.80 | $432.11 – $2,209.53 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,240.80 | $433.33 – $2,282.37 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,425.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $991.90 | $415.83 – $769.28 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $9,391.90 | $269.07 – $1,898.74 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,445.50 | $415.83 – $1,091.54 |