Mayo dipstick analyte single step qualitative/semiqualitative synovial fluid at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$16.40
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.
$41.00
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.
$9.08 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $56.20 with Aetna — 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 | $9.08 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $9.24 | ↓ -44% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $9.24 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $9.24 | ↓ -44% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $9.45 | ↓ -42% |
| Premera | HMO | $9.64 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $9.73 | ↓ -41% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $9.73 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $9.83 | ↓ -40% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $9.92 | ↓ -40% |
| Regence | RealValue | $9.98 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $10.39 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $10.60 | ↓ -35% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $11.09 | ↓ -32% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $11.09 | ↓ -32% |
| Regence | Commercial | $11.09 | ↓ -32% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $11.09 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $11.57 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $11.57 | ↓ -29% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $12.05 | ↓ -27% |
| Premera | Signature | $12.05 | ↓ -27% |
| Premera | Prime | $12.05 | ↓ -27% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $13.45 | ↓ -18% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $14.70 | ↓ -10% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $15.93 | ↓ -3% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $17.48 | ↑ +7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $24.10 | ↑ +47% |
| First Choice | PPO | $24.10 | ↑ +47% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $29.93 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $34.85 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $56.20 | ↑ +243% |
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Mayo dipstick analyte single step qualitative/semiqualitative synovial fluid at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $8.19 – $53.98 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $43.20 | $7.00 – $7.00 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $20.40 | $8.43 – $18.89 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $20.40 | $8.63 – $18.89 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $24.99 | $6.75 – $30.13 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $20.40 | $8.43 – $18.89 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $20.40 | $8.59 – $30.49 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $20.40 | $8.63 – $18.89 |