Automated diff wbc count at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$16.00
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.
$40.00
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.
$4.01 with Molina vs $30.02 with Aetna — 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 | $4.01 | ↓ -75% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $4.01 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4.33 | ↓ -73% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4.33 | ↓ -73% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4.33 | ↓ -73% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Premera | HMO | $6.47 | ↓ -60% |
| Premera | Signature | $6.47 | ↓ -60% |
| Premera | Prime | $6.47 | ↓ -60% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $6.51 | ↓ -59% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $6.51 | ↓ -59% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $6.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6.53 | ↓ -59% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6.53 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $6.59 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $6.66 | ↓ -58% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $6.66 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | RealValue | $6.70 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $6.97 | ↓ -56% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $7.12 | ↓ -56% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $7.44 | ↓ -54% |
| Regence | Commercial | $7.44 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7.76 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $7.76 | ↓ -52% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8.09 | ↓ -49% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $9.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10.69 | ↓ -33% |
| First Choice | PPO | $12.29 | ↓ -23% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $12.68 | ↓ -21% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $23.36 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $23.36 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $30.02 | ↑ +88% |
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Automated diff wbc count at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $98.70 | not published |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $28.80 | $5.00 – $5.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $7.70 | $6.47 – $11.97 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $5.20 | $3.83 – $11.73 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $15.20 | $6.70 – $11.61 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $20.13 | $6.47 – $41.04 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $13.93 | $6.47 – $41.04 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $13.87 | $6.47 – $39.34 |