Afo rig ant tib tcf/= custom at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$1,988.00
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.
$4,970.00
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.
$804.76 with United Healthcare vs $4,624.58 with Kaiser — 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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| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $804.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $896.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $896.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | RealValue | $922.32 | ↓ -54% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $995.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $995.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,024.80 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,024.80 | ↓ -48% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,040.52 | ↓ -48% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,048.98 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,080.45 | ↓ -46% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,080.45 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,090.94 | ↓ -45% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,101.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,101.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,153.88 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,406.20 | ↓ -29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,452.80 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,469.16 | ↓ -26% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,598.13 | ↓ -20% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,768.58 | ↓ -11% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,844.64 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,844.64 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,963.24 | ↓ -1% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,097.96 | ↑ +6% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,254.56 | ↑ +13% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $4,624.58 | ↑ +133% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Afo rig ant tib tcf/= custom at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,421.28 | $1,070.39 – $3,251.84 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,421.28 | $1,070.39 – $2,617.65 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,421.28 | $1,070.39 – $2,376.27 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $1,988.00 | $1,024.80 – $4,444.79 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $830.80 | $922.32 – $1,793.76 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,988.00 | $896.70 – $4,624.58 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,988.00 | $922.32 – $1,940.62 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,988.00 | $896.70 – $4,624.58 |