Bronchoscopy w/markers at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$3,394.00
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.
$8,485.00
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 $40,235.51 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 | ↓ -64% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,248.69 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,248.69 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $1,248.69 | ↓ -63% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,816.27 | ↓ -46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $6,194.05 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $7,212.25 | ↑ +113% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $8,009.02 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $8,249.29 | ↑ +143% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $8,249.29 | ↑ +143% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $8,329.38 | ↑ +145% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $8,409.47 | ↑ +148% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $8,809.92 | ↑ +160% |
| Premera | HMO | $10,866.11 | ↑ +220% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $11,349.68 | ↑ +234% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $13,503.20 | ↑ +298% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14,816.68 | ↑ +337% |
| Regence | RealValue | $16,058.95 | ↑ +373% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $17,095.30 | ↑ +404% |
| Regence | Commercial | $17,843.28 | ↑ +426% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $17,843.28 | ↑ +426% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $17,843.28 | ↑ +426% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $17,986.96 | ↑ +430% |
| Premera | Prime | $17,986.96 | ↑ +430% |
| Premera | Signature | $17,986.96 | ↑ +430% |
| First Choice | PPO | $18,606.03 | ↑ +448% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $18,606.03 | ↑ +448% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $22,474.78 | ↑ +562% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $28,769.92 | ↑ +748% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $36,513.42 | ↑ +976% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $40,235.51 | ↑ +1085% |
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Bronchoscopy w/markers at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $5,920.00 – $26,500.89 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $3,160.40 | $1,113.76 – $27,532.51 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $3,394.00 | $1,139.22 – $33,877.43 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $3,394.00 | $1,165.56 – $33,877.43 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $8,063.10 | $25.35 – $1,171.03 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $3,394.00 | $1,139.22 – $33,877.43 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $3,394.00 | $1,160.21 – $48,661.38 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,394.00 | $1,166.02 – $33,877.43 |