Visual audiometry (vra) at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$279.20
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.
$698.00
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.
$61.01 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $1,231.02 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 | $61.01 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $62.14 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $62.14 | ↓ -78% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $62.14 | ↓ -78% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $90.39 | ↓ -68% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $245.04 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $252.39 | ↓ -10% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $252.39 | ↓ -10% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $254.84 | ↓ -9% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $257.29 | ↓ -8% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $269.54 | ↓ -3% |
| Premera | HMO | $272.43 | ↓ -2% |
| Regence | RealValue | $366.51 | ↑ +31% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $390.16 | ↑ +40% |
| Regence | Commercial | $407.23 | ↑ +46% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $407.23 | ↑ +46% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $407.23 | ↑ +46% |
| Premera | Prime | $410.51 | ↑ +47% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $410.51 | ↑ +47% |
| Premera | Signature | $410.51 | ↑ +47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $413.13 | ↑ +48% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $453.32 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $507.96 | ↑ +82% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $509.54 | ↑ +83% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $535.90 | ↑ +92% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $593.30 | ↑ +113% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $878.52 | ↑ +215% |
| First Choice | PPO | $878.52 | ↑ +215% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,117.14 | ↑ +300% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,231.02 | ↑ +341% |
| Kaiser | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Visual audiometry (vra) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | not published | $211.08 – $810.80 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $279.20 | $56.69 – $1,036.49 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $279.20 | $58.00 – $1,036.49 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $240.21 | $1.37 – $540.99 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $279.20 | $56.69 – $1,036.49 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $279.20 | $57.74 – $1,143.81 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $279.20 | $58.03 – $1,036.49 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $240.61 – $264.67 |