Artery x-rays spine at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$5,980.00
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.
$14,950.00
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.
$2,922.55 with Molina vs $28,395.50 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $2,922.55 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3,156.36 | ↓ -47% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3,156.36 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3,156.36 | ↓ -47% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3,156.36 | ↓ -47% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6,364.22 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6,555.15 | ↑ +10% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6,555.15 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $6,618.79 | ↑ +11% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $6,682.43 | ↑ +12% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $6,682.43 | ↑ +12% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7,000.64 | ↑ +17% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $7,673.34 | ↑ +28% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $8,730.80 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $8,730.80 | ↑ +46% |
| Premera | HMO | $9,628.52 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $10,713.72 | ↑ +79% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10,730.07 | ↑ +79% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $12,728.44 | ↑ +113% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $13,377.78 | ↑ +124% |
| First Choice | PPO | $14,478.00 | ↑ +142% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $18,041.67 | ↑ +202% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $18,041.67 | ↑ +202% |
| Regence | RealValue | $18,557.15 | ↑ +210% |
| Premera | Signature | $20,078.56 | ↑ +236% |
| Premera | Prime | $20,530.36 | ↑ +243% |
| Regence | Commercial | $20,619.05 | ↑ +245% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $23,797.09 | ↑ +298% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $25,219.21 | ↑ +322% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $25,232.27 | ↑ +322% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $26,710.80 | ↑ +347% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $28,395.50 | ↑ +375% |
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Artery x-rays spine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $13,007.04 | $6,443.62 – $22,383.45 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,638.70 | $1,459.13 – $15,780.92 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $13,007.04 | $6,443.62 – $21,556.13 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $13,007.04 | $580.76 – $22,383.45 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $18,640.00 | $5,406.00 – $5,406.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,905.30 | $775.53 – $11,471.40 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $13,710.20 | $416.51 – $17,051.86 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $8,827.00 | $676.92 – $18,821.15 |