Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$872.40
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.
$2,181.00
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.
$714.23 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $10,939.93 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 | $714.23 | ↓ -18% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $727.45 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $727.45 | ↓ -17% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $727.45 | ↓ -17% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,058.12 | ↑ +21% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,592.13 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,853.85 | ↑ +113% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,177.63 | ↑ +150% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,242.96 | ↑ +157% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,242.96 | ↑ +157% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $2,264.74 | ↑ +160% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,286.52 | ↑ +162% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,395.40 | ↑ +175% |
| Premera | HMO | $3,058.68 | ↑ +251% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $3,249.05 | ↑ +272% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,671.49 | ↑ +321% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $4,028.62 | ↑ +362% |
| Regence | RealValue | $4,464.63 | ↑ +412% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $4,752.75 | ↑ +445% |
| Regence | Commercial | $4,960.70 | ↑ +469% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $4,960.70 | ↑ +469% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $4,960.70 | ↑ +469% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $5,000.66 | ↑ +473% |
| Premera | Prime | $5,000.66 | ↑ +473% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,000.66 | ↑ +473% |
| First Choice | PPO | $5,326.31 | ↑ +511% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $5,326.31 | ↑ +511% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $6,158.85 | ↑ +606% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $8,098.39 | ↑ +828% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,927.90 | ↑ +1038% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $10,939.93 | ↑ +1154% |
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Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $1,875.87 – $7,319.78 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $902.97 | $1,288.94 – $8,208.11 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $624.74 | $879.75 – $1,841.34 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $622.27 | $1,473.07 – $1,912.27 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $872.40 | $663.68 – $9,211.19 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $872.40 | $679.03 – $9,211.19 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $677.61 | $1,473.07 – $1,912.27 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $722.96 | $347.81 – $1,841.34 |