Artery x-rays spine at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$5,926.80
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.
$14,817.00
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.
$3,074.05 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $31,723.85 with United Healthcare — 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 | $3,074.05 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $3,130.98 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3,130.98 | ↓ -47% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3,130.98 | ↓ -47% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $4,554.15 | ↓ -23% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6,314.75 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6,504.19 | ↑ +10% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6,504.19 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $6,567.34 | ↑ +11% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $6,630.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $6,946.22 | ↑ +17% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $9,588.57 | ↑ +62% |
| Premera | HMO | $9,628.52 | ↑ +62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10,646.66 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $10,816.41 | ↑ +83% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $11,682.28 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $12,594.45 | ↑ +113% |
| Regence | RealValue | $12,893.87 | ↑ +118% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $13,725.96 | ↑ +132% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $14,326.52 | ↑ +142% |
| Regence | Commercial | $14,326.52 | ↑ +142% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $14,326.52 | ↑ +142% |
| Premera | Signature | $14,441.89 | ↑ +144% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $14,441.89 | ↑ +144% |
| Premera | Prime | $14,441.89 | ↑ +144% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $15,718.97 | ↑ +165% |
| First Choice | PPO | $15,718.97 | ↑ +165% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $17,550.39 | ↑ +196% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $23,899.88 | ↑ +303% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $28,789.15 | ↑ +386% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $31,723.85 | ↑ +435% |
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Artery x-rays spine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $11,291.28 | $964.40 – $21,602.09 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $13,007.04 | $6,443.62 – $22,383.45 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,638.70 | $1,459.13 – $15,780.92 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $13,007.04 | $6,443.62 – $21,556.13 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $13,007.04 | $580.76 – $22,383.45 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $18,640.00 | $5,406.00 – $5,406.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,905.30 | $775.53 – $11,471.40 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $13,710.20 | $416.51 – $17,051.86 |