Anoscopy and biopsy at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$2,810.00
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.
$7,025.00
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.
$689.17 with Molina vs $6,386.84 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $689.17 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $744.31 | ↓ -74% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $744.31 | ↓ -74% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $744.31 | ↓ -74% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $744.31 | ↓ -74% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,368.62 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,409.68 | ↓ -50% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,409.68 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,423.37 | ↓ -49% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,437.05 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,437.05 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,505.49 | ↓ -46% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,901.87 | ↓ -32% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,307.50 | ↓ -18% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,737.25 | ↓ -3% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,872.74 | ↑ +2% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $3,385.02 | ↑ +20% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $3,874.26 | ↑ +38% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $3,874.26 | ↑ +38% |
| Regence | RealValue | $3,984.96 | ↑ +42% |
| Premera | Signature | $4,311.67 | ↑ +53% |
| Premera | Prime | $4,408.69 | ↑ +57% |
| Regence | Commercial | $4,427.73 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $4,726.26 | ↑ +68% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $5,013.87 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $5,128.25 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $5,128.25 | ↑ +83% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $5,418.38 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $5,500.77 | ↑ +96% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $5,744.14 | ↑ +104% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6,106.43 | ↑ +117% |
| First Choice | PPO | $6,386.84 | ↑ +127% |
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Anoscopy and biopsy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,551.20 | $1,385.70 – $4,719.83 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,551.20 | $1,385.70 – $4,569.20 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,551.20 | $1,389.59 – $4,719.83 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $2,810.00 | $673.60 – $5,744.14 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,677.90 | $5.02 – $539.66 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $2,810.00 | $724.90 – $6,191.09 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $2,810.00 | $673.60 – $5,744.14 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $2,810.00 | $686.01 – $8,517.09 |