Change of windpipe airway 31502 at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$386.40
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.
$966.00
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.
$78.87 with Molina vs $1,295.15 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 |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $78.87 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $85.18 | ↓ -78% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $85.18 | ↓ -78% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $85.18 | ↓ -78% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $85.18 | ↓ -78% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $270.89 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $279.02 | ↓ -28% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $279.02 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $281.73 | ↓ -27% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $284.43 | ↓ -26% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $284.43 | ↓ -26% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $297.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Premera | HMO | $389.33 | ↑ +1% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $456.72 | ↑ +18% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $541.78 | ↑ +40% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $594.63 | ↑ +54% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $686.43 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $705.18 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $705.18 | ↑ +83% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $801.93 | ↑ +108% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $801.93 | ↑ +108% |
| Regence | RealValue | $824.84 | ↑ +113% |
| Premera | Signature | $892.48 | ↑ +131% |
| Premera | Prime | $912.56 | ↑ +136% |
| Regence | Commercial | $916.49 | ↑ +137% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $958.41 | ↑ +148% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $962.25 | ↑ +149% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,083.39 | ↑ +180% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,121.56 | ↑ +190% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,136.96 | ↑ +194% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,208.67 | ↑ +213% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,295.15 | ↑ +235% |
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Change of windpipe airway 31502 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $296.73 | $263.93 – $290.33 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $130.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $636.48 | $274.27 – $957.11 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $741.30 | $263.93 – $671.71 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $636.48 | $274.27 – $926.56 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $636.48 | $275.04 – $957.11 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $533.60 | not published |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $544.44 | $274.27 – $1,191.29 |