Bronchial challenge at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$415.20
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.
$1,038.00
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.
$72.64 with Molina vs $1,904.20 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 | $72.64 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $78.45 | ↓ -81% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $78.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $78.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $78.45 | ↓ -81% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $426.79 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $439.59 | ↑ +6% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $439.59 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $443.86 | ↑ +7% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $448.13 | ↑ +8% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $448.13 | ↑ +8% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $469.47 | ↑ +13% |
| Premera | HMO | $524.65 | ↑ +26% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $719.56 | ↑ +73% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $757.74 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $757.74 | ↑ +83% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $764.10 | ↑ +84% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $853.15 | ↑ +105% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $853.58 | ↑ +106% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,030.49 | ↑ +148% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,030.49 | ↑ +148% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,059.93 | ↑ +155% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,146.85 | ↑ +176% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,172.65 | ↑ +182% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,177.70 | ↑ +184% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,191.19 | ↑ +187% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,296.68 | ↑ +212% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,441.21 | ↑ +247% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,452.76 | ↑ +250% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,609.72 | ↑ +288% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,791.23 | ↑ +331% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,904.20 | ↑ +359% |
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Bronchial challenge at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $543.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $849.12 | $432.11 – $1,312.76 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,167.60 | $415.83 – $1,058.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $849.12 | $432.11 – $1,151.61 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $849.12 | $433.33 – $1,189.57 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $685.60 | not published |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $672.00 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $455.70 | $278.13 – $769.28 |