Amino acid screen, urine at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$63.20
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.
$158.00
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.
$9.08 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $134.30 with First Health — 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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| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $9.08 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $9.24 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $9.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $9.24 | ↓ -85% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $13.45 | ↓ -79% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $13.59 | ↓ -78% |
| Premera | HMO | $13.87 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $14.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $14.00 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $14.14 | ↓ -78% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $14.27 | ↓ -77% |
| Regence | RealValue | $14.36 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $14.95 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $15.26 | ↓ -76% |
| Regence | Commercial | $15.95 | ↓ -75% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $15.95 | ↓ -75% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $15.95 | ↓ -75% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $15.95 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $16.64 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $16.64 | ↓ -74% |
| Premera | Signature | $17.34 | ↓ -73% |
| Premera | Prime | $17.34 | ↓ -73% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $17.34 | ↓ -73% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $21.15 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $22.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $25.15 | ↓ -60% |
| First Choice | PPO | $34.68 | ↓ -45% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $34.68 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $80.86 | ↑ +28% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $115.34 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $134.30 | ↑ +113% |
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Amino acid screen, urine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $11.79 – $77.67 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $62.40 | $10.00 – $10.00 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $166.60 | $13.87 – $59.20 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $32.40 | $14.36 – $24.89 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $34.40 | $8.43 – $27.19 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $34.40 | $8.63 – $27.19 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $40.29 | $9.71 – $43.35 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $34.40 | $8.43 – $27.19 |