Lithium therapeutic drug level at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$64.00
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.
$160.00
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.
$6.48 with SCAN vs $136.00 with First Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6.48 | ↓ -90% |
| Premera | HMO | $6.61 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6.67 | ↓ -90% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6.67 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $6.74 | ↓ -89% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $6.80 | ↓ -89% |
| Regence | RealValue | $6.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $7.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $7.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $7.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $7.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Regence | Commercial | $7.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $7.83 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $7.93 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7.93 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $7.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $7.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $7.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8.26 | ↓ -87% |
| Premera | Prime | $8.26 | ↓ -87% |
| Premera | Signature | $8.26 | ↓ -87% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $10.08 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10.92 | ↓ -83% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $11.61 | ↓ -82% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $11.98 | ↓ -81% |
| First Choice | PPO | $16.53 | ↓ -74% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $16.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $38.54 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $116.80 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $136.00 | ↑ +113% |
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Lithium therapeutic drug level at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $141.96 | $5.62 – $37.02 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $61.74 | $6.61 – $7.27 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $79.10 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $36.48 | $5.95 – $31.07 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $145.60 | $6.61 – $23.80 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $36.48 | $5.95 – $30.08 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $36.48 | $5.95 – $31.07 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $80.80 | $6.00 – $6.00 |