Bronchoscopy/lung bx each 31628 at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$3,202.80
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.
$8,007.00
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.
$1,225.98 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $21,255.78 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 | $1,225.98 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $1,248.69 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,248.69 | ↓ -61% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,248.69 | ↓ -61% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,816.27 | ↓ -43% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4,231.04 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4,357.97 | ↑ +36% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4,357.97 | ↑ +36% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $4,400.28 | ↑ +37% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4,442.59 | ↑ +39% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4,654.14 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $5,845.11 | ↑ +83% |
| Premera | HMO | $5,854.74 | ↑ +83% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $6,126.98 | ↑ +91% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $6,805.95 | ↑ +113% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $7,133.53 | ↑ +123% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $7,827.42 | ↑ +144% |
| Regence | RealValue | $8,786.61 | ↑ +174% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9,353.64 | ↑ +192% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $9,762.90 | ↑ +205% |
| Regence | Commercial | $9,762.90 | ↑ +205% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $9,762.90 | ↑ +205% |
| Premera | Signature | $9,841.52 | ↑ +207% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $9,841.52 | ↑ +207% |
| Premera | Prime | $9,841.52 | ↑ +207% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $10,044.23 | ↑ +214% |
| First Choice | PPO | $10,044.23 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $11,970.22 | ↑ +274% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $15,501.47 | ↑ +384% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $19,289.46 | ↑ +502% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $21,255.78 | ↑ +564% |
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Bronchoscopy/lung bx each 31628 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $3,644.72 – $14,000.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $382.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,877.44 | $4,317.39 – $14,302.75 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,032.60 | $4,154.66 – $10,573.61 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,877.44 | $4,317.39 – $13,774.11 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,877.44 | $4,329.50 – $14,302.75 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $382.20 | not published |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $3,727.60 | $1,113.76 – $14,834.74 |