Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$3,810.00
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.
$9,525.00
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.
$2,051.91 with Molina vs $19,980.41 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 | $2,051.91 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,216.06 | ↓ -42% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,216.06 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,216.06 | ↓ -42% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,216.06 | ↓ -42% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4,478.16 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4,612.51 | ↑ +21% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4,612.51 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $4,657.29 | ↑ +22% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4,702.07 | ↑ +23% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4,702.07 | ↑ +23% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4,925.98 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5,057.83 | ↑ +33% |
| Premera | HMO | $6,037.66 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $6,953.25 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $6,953.25 | ↑ +83% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $7,061.88 | ↑ +85% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $7,550.18 | ↑ +98% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $8,956.33 | ↑ +135% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9,279.22 | ↑ +144% |
| First Choice | PPO | $9,543.08 | ↑ +150% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $12,514.24 | ↑ +228% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $12,514.24 | ↑ +228% |
| Regence | RealValue | $12,871.79 | ↑ +238% |
| Premera | Signature | $13,927.08 | ↑ +266% |
| Premera | Prime | $14,240.46 | ↑ +274% |
| Regence | Commercial | $14,301.99 | ↑ +275% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $15,917.01 | ↑ +318% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $17,501.84 | ↑ +359% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $17,864.75 | ↑ +369% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $18,794.97 | ↑ +393% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $19,980.41 | ↑ +424% |
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Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $8,856.48 | $4,534.03 – $14,753.91 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $8,856.48 | $4,534.03 – $14,208.59 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $8,856.48 | $4,546.75 – $14,753.91 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $2,590.40 | $1,960.71 – $15,298.21 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $447.60 | $4,671.06 – $11,863.51 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $3,810.00 | $2,005.54 – $18,794.97 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $5,963.43 | $5.67 – $1,154.16 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $3,810.00 | $2,158.28 – $20,257.40 |