Bronchoscopy/lung bx each 31628 at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$3,202.80
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.
$8,007.00
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.
$1,165.56 with Molina vs $19,025.70 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 | $1,165.56 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,258.81 | ↓ -61% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,258.81 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,258.81 | ↓ -61% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,258.81 | ↓ -61% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4,264.19 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4,392.11 | ↑ +37% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4,392.11 | ↑ +37% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $4,434.75 | ↑ +38% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4,477.40 | ↑ +40% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4,477.40 | ↑ +40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4,690.61 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $4,903.17 | ↑ +53% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $5,845.11 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $5,845.11 | ↑ +83% |
| Premera | HMO | $5,854.74 | ↑ +83% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $6,845.94 | ↑ +114% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $7,189.42 | ↑ +124% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $8,528.37 | ↑ +166% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9,116.37 | ↑ +185% |
| First Choice | PPO | $9,251.27 | ↑ +189% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $12,294.61 | ↑ +284% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $12,294.61 | ↑ +284% |
| Regence | RealValue | $12,645.88 | ↑ +295% |
| Premera | Signature | $13,682.66 | ↑ +327% |
| Premera | Prime | $13,990.54 | ↑ +337% |
| Regence | Commercial | $14,050.98 | ↑ +339% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $15,434.80 | ↑ +382% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $17,194.69 | ↑ +437% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $17,200.73 | ↑ +437% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $17,896.91 | ↑ +459% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $19,025.70 | ↑ +494% |
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Bronchoscopy/lung bx each 31628 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $382.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,877.44 | $4,317.39 – $14,302.75 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,032.60 | $4,154.66 – $10,573.61 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,877.44 | $4,317.39 – $13,774.11 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,877.44 | $4,329.50 – $14,302.75 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $382.20 | not published |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $3,727.60 | $1,113.76 – $14,834.74 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $2,143.20 | $4,447.86 – $11,655.31 |