Smear fluorescent and/or acid fast stain at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$78.40
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.
$196.00
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.
$5.28 with SCAN vs $166.60 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 |
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| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $5.28 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $5.38 | ↓ -93% |
| Premera | HMO | $5.39 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $5.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $5.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $5.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $5.48 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $5.48 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $5.49 | ↓ -93% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $5.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Regence | RealValue | $5.58 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $5.81 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $5.93 | ↓ -92% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $6.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $6.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Regence | Commercial | $6.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $6.20 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $6.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Premera | Signature | $6.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Premera | Prime | $6.74 | ↓ -91% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $7.97 | ↓ -90% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $8.22 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $8.91 | ↓ -89% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $9.77 | ↓ -88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $13.48 | ↓ -83% |
| First Choice | PPO | $13.48 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $31.42 | ↓ -60% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $143.08 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $166.60 | ↑ +113% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $64.48 | $4.58 – $30.18 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $101.43 | $5.39 – $5.93 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $164.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $34.08 | $4.85 – $25.33 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $144.90 | $5.39 – $19.40 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $34.08 | $4.85 – $24.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $34.08 | $4.85 – $25.33 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $62.40 | $4.00 – $4.00 |