Red blood cells washed each unit at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$522.00
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.
$1,305.00
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.
$279.14 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $2,056.75 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 | $279.14 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $284.31 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $284.31 | ↓ -46% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $284.31 | ↓ -46% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $409.41 | ↓ -22% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $413.54 | ↓ -21% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $421.69 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $421.69 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $425.78 | ↓ -18% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $429.88 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $450.35 | ↓ -14% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $690.26 | ↑ +32% |
| Premera | HMO | $741.43 | ↑ +42% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $757.40 | ↑ +45% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $875.58 | ↑ +68% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $952.65 | ↑ +83% |
| Regence | RealValue | $977.94 | ↑ +87% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,041.05 | ↑ +99% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,086.60 | ↑ +108% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,086.60 | ↑ +108% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,086.60 | ↑ +108% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,095.36 | ↑ +110% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,095.36 | ↑ +110% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,095.36 | ↑ +110% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,109.25 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,288.51 | ↑ +147% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,435.38 | ↑ +175% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,435.38 | ↑ +175% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,866.49 | ↑ +258% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,056.75 | ↑ +294% |
| Kaiser | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $313.29 – $2,126.49 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $669.20 | $368.58 – $405.44 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $303.10 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,689.80 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $669.20 | $368.58 – $1,367.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,594.87 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,689.80 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $272.80 | not published |