Brain image w/flow < 4 views at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$1,904.40
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.
$4,761.00
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.
$272.41 with Molina vs $2,780.57 with Multiplan/PHCS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $272.41 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $294.20 | ↓ -85% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $294.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $294.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $294.20 | ↓ -85% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $457.23 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $470.94 | ↓ -75% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $470.94 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $475.52 | ↓ -75% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $480.09 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $480.09 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $502.95 | ↓ -74% |
| Premera | HMO | $728.14 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $770.88 | ↓ -60% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $914.45 | ↓ -52% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,004.04 | ↓ -47% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,240.89 | ↓ -35% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,354.08 | ↓ -29% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,354.08 | ↓ -29% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,392.76 | ↓ -27% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,506.97 | ↓ -21% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,540.88 | ↓ -19% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,547.52 | ↓ -19% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,732.57 | ↓ -9% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,799.59 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,874.66 | ↓ -2% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,893.77 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,919.01 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,040.04 | ↑ +7% |
| First Choice | PPO | $2,341.31 | ↑ +23% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,780.57 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,780.57 | ↑ +46% |
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Brain image w/flow < 4 views at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,190.00 | $365.46 – $824.14 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $921.20 | $350.54 – $1,439.39 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $608.40 | $455.26 – $1,546.15 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $843.37 | $1,203.87 – $1,831.85 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $583.51 | $780.44 – $3,374.91 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $581.20 | $780.44 – $3,178.56 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,904.40 | $266.25 – $1,919.01 |