Complex cystometrogram 51726 at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$664.00
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.
$1,660.00
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.
$269.75 with Molina vs $1,493.96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $269.75 | ↓ -59% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $285.76 | ↓ -57% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $291.33 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $291.33 | ↓ -56% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $291.33 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $291.33 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $294.33 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $294.33 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $297.19 | ↓ -55% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $300.04 | ↓ -55% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $300.04 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $314.33 | ↓ -53% |
| Premera | HMO | $402.52 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $481.79 | ↓ -27% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $571.51 | ↓ -14% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $601.65 | ↓ -9% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $791.80 | ↑ +19% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $811.41 | ↑ +22% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $811.41 | ↑ +22% |
| Regence | RealValue | $834.59 | ↑ +26% |
| Premera | Signature | $903.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Premera | Prime | $923.32 | ↑ +39% |
| Regence | Commercial | $927.32 | ↑ +40% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $994.85 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,105.53 | ↑ +66% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,134.64 | ↑ +71% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,134.78 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,199.32 | ↑ +81% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,211.80 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,211.80 | ↑ +83% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,274.96 | ↑ +92% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,493.96 | ↑ +125% |
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Complex cystometrogram 51726 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,006.88 | $289.32 – $1,104.03 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,465.80 | $278.42 – $728.19 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,006.88 | $289.32 – $1,068.80 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,006.88 | $290.13 – $1,104.03 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $631.20 | $298.07 – $769.20 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $664.00 | $263.66 – $1,199.32 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,024.59 | $5.18 – $933.19 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $664.00 | $283.54 – $1,292.64 |