Av fusion direct any site at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$7,611.20
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.
$19,028.00
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.
$2,504.45 with Molina vs $16,112.59 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 | $2,504.45 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,704.81 | ↓ -64% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,704.81 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,704.81 | ↓ -64% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,704.81 | ↓ -64% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $3,611.28 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $3,719.61 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $3,719.61 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $3,755.73 | ↓ -51% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $3,791.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $3,791.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $3,972.40 | ↓ -48% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $4,626.65 | ↓ -39% |
| Premera | HMO | $5,231.86 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $6,088.61 | ↓ -20% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $6,459.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $7,222.55 | ↓ -5% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $7,759.56 | ↑ +2% |
| First Choice | PPO | $8,729.53 | ↑ +15% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $10,464.78 | ↑ +37% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $10,464.78 | ↑ +37% |
| Regence | RealValue | $10,763.77 | ↑ +41% |
| Premera | Signature | $11,646.25 | ↑ +53% |
| Premera | Prime | $11,908.31 | ↑ +56% |
| Regence | Commercial | $11,959.75 | ↑ +57% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $13,792.63 | ↑ +81% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $13,890.44 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $13,890.44 | ↑ +83% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $14,635.58 | ↑ +92% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $14,684.01 | ↑ +93% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $15,156.63 | ↑ +99% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $16,112.59 | ↑ +112% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $6,325.60 | not published |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $7,611.20 | $2,447.85 – $15,156.63 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $9,928.68 | $6.53 – $3,248.08 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $7,611.20 | $2,634.28 – $16,335.97 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $7,611.20 | $2,447.85 – $15,156.63 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $7,611.20 | $2,492.96 – $23,429.60 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $7,611.20 | $2,505.44 – $15,156.63 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $3,518.52 – $3,870.37 |