Cytopath tbs c/v manual at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$30.40
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.
$76.00
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.
$12.26 with Molina vs $84.40 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 |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $12.26 | ↓ -60% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $12.26 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $13.25 | ↓ -56% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $13.25 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $13.25 | ↓ -56% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $15.23 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | HMO | $17.31 | ↓ -43% |
| Premera | Signature | $17.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Premera | Prime | $17.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $17.87 | ↓ -41% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $17.87 | ↓ -41% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $18.17 | ↓ -40% |
| Regence | RealValue | $18.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $18.71 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $18.71 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $18.90 | ↓ -38% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $19.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $19.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $19.99 | ↓ -34% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $20.39 | ↓ -33% |
| Regence | Commercial | $20.42 | ↓ -33% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $20.42 | ↓ -33% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $21.26 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $21.83 | ↓ -28% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $22.20 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $22.25 | ↓ -27% |
| First Choice | PPO | $28.73 | ↓ -5% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $30.63 | ↑ +1% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $36.34 | ↑ +20% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $44.53 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $44.53 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $84.40 | ↑ +178% |
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Cytopath tbs c/v manual at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $29.61 | $18.54 – $20.39 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $39.90 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $90.30 | $18.54 – $54.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $94.40 | $22.00 – $22.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $41.30 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $135.80 | $18.54 – $59.12 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $46.90 | $18.54 – $64.65 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $40.56 | $18.54 – $63.50 |