Critical Care (first 30 to 74 minutes) at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$5,090.00
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.
$12,725.00
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.
$944.75 with SCAN vs $7,203.64 with First Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $944.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $973.09 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $973.09 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $982.54 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $991.98 | ↓ -81% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $991.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,039.22 | ↓ -80% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,183.65 | ↓ -77% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,438.21 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,592.84 | ↓ -69% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,652.65 | ↓ -68% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,889.49 | ↓ -63% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,160.20 | ↓ -58% |
| First Choice | PPO | $2,233.31 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,913.31 | ↓ -43% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,913.31 | ↓ -43% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,996.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Premera | Signature | $3,242.23 | ↓ -36% |
| Premera | Prime | $3,315.19 | ↓ -35% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,329.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $3,554.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,931.03 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $3,965.15 | ↓ -22% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $4,074.44 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4,215.24 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $7,203.64 | ↑ +42% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $7,203.64 | ↑ +42% |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Critical Care (first 30 to 74 minutes) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,393.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,376.00 | $956.53 – $3,246.63 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $5,573.40 | $920.48 – $2,342.62 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,376.00 | $956.53 – $3,126.64 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,376.00 | $959.22 – $3,246.63 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $5,980.00 | $956.53 – $4,153.29 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,198.40 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,810.50 | $786.30 – $1,702.89 |