Diagnostic digital breast tomosynthesis bil at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$87.60
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.
$219.00
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.
$67.38 with First Choice vs $139.81 with Regence — 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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| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $67.38 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $88.34 | ↑ +1% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $90.65 | ↑ +3% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $105.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Premera | Prime | $105.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Premera | HMO | $105.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Premera | Signature | $105.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $122.34 | ↑ +40% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $122.34 | ↑ +40% |
| First Choice | PPO | $122.50 | ↑ +40% |
| Regence | RealValue | $125.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $127.75 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $127.75 | ↑ +46% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $139.81 | ↑ +60% |
| Regence | Commercial | $139.81 | ↑ +60% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Kaiser | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Diagnostic digital breast tomosynthesis bil at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $448.00 | $111.00 – $111.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $71.40 | not published |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $106.60 | $476.74 – $490.62 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $56.80 | $145.41 – $151.00 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $87.60 | $122.34 – $139.81 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $43.35 | $27.62 – $193.12 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $42.00 | $129.86 – $167.78 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $87.60 | $122.34 – $139.81 |