Assay of feces porphyrins at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$38.40
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.
$96.00
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.
$23.87 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $228.01 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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| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $23.87 | ↓ -38% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $24.32 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $24.32 | ↓ -37% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $24.32 | ↓ -37% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $35.37 | ↓ -8% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $38.33 | ↓ -0% |
| Premera | HMO | $39.11 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $39.48 | ↑ +3% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $39.48 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $39.86 | ↑ +4% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $40.24 | ↑ +5% |
| Regence | RealValue | $40.48 | ↑ +5% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $42.16 | ↑ +10% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $43.02 | ↑ +12% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $44.98 | ↑ +17% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $44.98 | ↑ +17% |
| Regence | Commercial | $44.98 | ↑ +17% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $44.98 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $46.93 | ↑ +22% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $46.93 | ↑ +22% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $48.89 | ↑ +27% |
| Premera | Signature | $48.89 | ↑ +27% |
| Premera | Prime | $48.89 | ↑ +27% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $59.64 | ↑ +55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $64.62 | ↑ +68% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $70.08 | ↑ +83% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $70.91 | ↑ +85% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $81.60 | ↑ +113% |
| First Choice | PPO | $97.78 | ↑ +155% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $97.78 | ↑ +155% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $228.01 | ↑ +494% |
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Assay of feces porphyrins at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $33.24 – $219.02 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $108.00 | $35.20 – $183.82 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $108.00 | $35.20 – $177.95 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $108.00 | $35.20 – $183.82 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $176.00 | $30.00 – $30.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $146.30 | $39.11 – $72.35 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $101.80 | $39.11 – $207.59 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $70.44 | $39.11 – $207.59 |