Below knee total contact at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$186.00
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.
$465.00
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.
$274.35 with United Healthcare vs $1,574.71 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 | $274.35 | ↑ +48% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $305.33 | ↑ +64% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $305.33 | ↑ +64% |
| Regence | RealValue | $314.06 | ↑ +69% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $339.45 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $339.45 | ↑ +83% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $348.95 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | Commercial | $348.95 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $354.32 | ↑ +90% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $357.18 | ↑ +92% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $367.90 | ↑ +98% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $367.90 | ↑ +98% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $371.47 | ↑ +100% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $375.04 | ↑ +102% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $375.04 | ↑ +102% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $392.90 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $478.81 | ↑ +157% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $494.70 | ↑ +166% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $500.25 | ↑ +169% |
| Premera | HMO | $544.18 | ↑ +193% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $602.21 | ↑ +224% |
| Premera | Signature | $628.11 | ↑ +238% |
| Premera | Prime | $628.11 | ↑ +238% |
| First Choice | PPO | $668.52 | ↑ +259% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $714.36 | ↑ +284% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $767.69 | ↑ +313% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,574.71 | ↑ +747% |
| 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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Below knee total contact at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $483.36 | $364.47 – $1,107.26 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $483.36 | $364.47 – $891.36 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $483.36 | $364.47 – $809.12 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $186.00 | $348.95 – $1,513.49 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $186.00 | $305.33 – $1,574.71 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $186.00 | $314.06 – $660.78 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $186.00 | $305.33 – $1,574.71 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $186.00 | $305.33 – $2,674.97 |