Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$555.24
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.
$1,388.10
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.
$521.68 with United Healthcare vs $13,968.98 with First Choice — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $521.68 | ↓ -6% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $645.47 | ↑ +16% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $645.47 | ↑ +16% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $1,178.48 | ↑ +112% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,272.76 | ↑ +129% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,272.76 | ↑ +129% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,272.76 | ↑ +129% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,272.76 | ↑ +129% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,286.36 | ↑ +132% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,599.37 | ↑ +188% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,353.37 | ↑ +324% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,459.85 | ↑ +343% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,459.85 | ↑ +343% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,532.53 | ↑ +356% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,532.53 | ↑ +356% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,604.89 | ↑ +369% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,894.32 | ↑ +421% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,994.60 | ↑ +439% |
| Premera | HMO | $3,100.62 | ↑ +458% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $6,148.64 | ↑ +1007% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $7,403.56 | ↑ +1233% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $10,337.04 | ↑ +1762% |
| First Choice | PPO | $13,968.98 | ↑ +2416% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $539.88 | $835.80 – $835.80 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,527.32 | $1,071.97 – $6,628.80 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $803.10 | $1,126.10 – $5,909.60 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $741.50 | $1,978.57 – $6,408.13 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $7,442.54 | $265.61 – $5,860.46 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $5,149.28 | $181.29 – $379.44 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $5,128.92 | $303.56 – $3,983.20 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $645.06 | $1,151.85 – $7,403.56 |