Exchange drainage catheter at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$2,128.00
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.
$5,320.00
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.
$551.84 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 | $551.84 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $562.06 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $562.06 | ↓ -74% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $562.06 | ↓ -74% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $817.55 | ↓ -62% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,177.63 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,242.96 | ↑ +5% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,242.96 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $2,264.74 | ↑ +6% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,286.52 | ↑ +7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,395.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Premera | HMO | $3,058.68 | ↑ +44% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $3,249.05 | ↑ +53% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,671.49 | ↑ +73% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,883.60 | ↑ +83% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $4,028.62 | ↑ +89% |
| Regence | RealValue | $4,464.63 | ↑ +110% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $4,522.00 | ↑ +113% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $4,752.75 | ↑ +123% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $4,960.70 | ↑ +133% |
| Regence | Commercial | $4,960.70 | ↑ +133% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $4,960.70 | ↑ +133% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,000.66 | ↑ +135% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $5,000.66 | ↑ +135% |
| Premera | Prime | $5,000.66 | ↑ +135% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $5,326.31 | ↑ +150% |
| First Choice | PPO | $5,326.31 | ↑ +150% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $6,158.85 | ↑ +189% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $8,098.39 | ↑ +281% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,927.90 | ↑ +367% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $10,939.93 | ↑ +414% |
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Exchange drainage catheter at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $3,594.24 | $1,875.87 – $7,319.78 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $3,352.30 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,673.28 | $2,222.08 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,700.90 | $2,138.32 – $5,442.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,673.28 | $2,222.08 – $7,304.21 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,673.28 | $2,228.31 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $3,397.16 | $2,222.08 – $9,110.79 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $4,030.60 | not published |