Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$54.00
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.
$135.00
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.
$22.70 with Molina vs $285.36 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $22.70 | ↓ -58% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $22.70 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $24.51 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $24.51 | ↓ -55% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $24.51 | ↓ -55% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $60.27 | ↑ +12% |
| Premera | HMO | $61.50 | ↑ +14% |
| Premera | Signature | $61.50 | ↑ +14% |
| Premera | Prime | $61.50 | ↑ +14% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $61.88 | ↑ +15% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $61.88 | ↑ +15% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $61.93 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $62.08 | ↑ +15% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $62.08 | ↑ +15% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $62.68 | ↑ +16% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $63.28 | ↑ +17% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $63.28 | ↑ +17% |
| Regence | RealValue | $63.65 | ↑ +18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $66.30 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $67.65 | ↑ +25% |
| Regence | Commercial | $70.73 | ↑ +31% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $70.73 | ↑ +31% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $73.80 | ↑ +37% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $73.80 | ↑ +37% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $76.88 | ↑ +42% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $78.84 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $78.84 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $86.47 | ↑ +60% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $101.62 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | PPO | $116.85 | ↑ +116% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $120.54 | ↑ +123% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $285.36 | ↑ +428% |
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Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $198.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $268.32 | $55.35 – $289.05 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $143.50 | $61.50 – $221.40 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $268.32 | $55.35 – $279.83 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $268.32 | $55.35 – $289.05 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $276.80 | $46.00 – $46.00 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $220.40 | $21.69 – $111.50 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $371.64 | $61.50 – $494.85 |