Vital capacity test at MultiCare Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall DR SW, Olympia, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841258639
$88.80
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.
$222.00
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.
$38.86 with Community Health Plan of Washington vs $878.52 with First Choice — 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 | $38.86 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $39.58 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $39.58 | ↓ -55% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $39.58 | ↓ -55% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $57.58 | ↓ -35% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $146.02 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $150.40 | ↑ +69% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $150.40 | ↑ +69% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $151.86 | ↑ +71% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $153.32 | ↑ +73% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $160.62 | ↑ +81% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $162.06 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $188.70 | ↑ +113% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $246.19 | ↑ +177% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $270.14 | ↑ +204% |
| Premera | HMO | $272.43 | ↑ +207% |
| Regence | RealValue | $366.51 | ↑ +313% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $390.16 | ↑ +339% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $407.23 | ↑ +359% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $407.23 | ↑ +359% |
| Regence | Commercial | $407.23 | ↑ +359% |
| Premera | Signature | $410.51 | ↑ +362% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $410.51 | ↑ +362% |
| Premera | Prime | $410.51 | ↑ +362% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $507.96 | ↑ +472% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $535.90 | ↑ +503% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $665.74 | ↑ +650% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $733.60 | ↑ +726% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $878.52 | ↑ +889% |
| First Choice | PPO | $878.52 | ↑ +889% |
| Kaiser | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Vital capacity test at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $481.00 | $125.79 – $774.76 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $250.74 | $143.39 – $157.72 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $85.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $467.52 | $149.00 – $650.25 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $518.00 | $143.39 – $498.06 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $467.52 | $149.00 – $629.49 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $467.52 | $149.42 – $650.25 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $521.60 | not published |