Dialysis one evaluation at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$540.80
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.
$1,352.00
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.
$477.23 with SCAN vs $2,360.51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $477.23 | ↓ -12% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $491.55 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $491.55 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $496.32 | ↓ -8% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $501.09 | ↓ -7% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $501.09 | ↓ -7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $524.95 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $543.27 | ↑ +0% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $586.73 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $586.73 | ↑ +8% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $586.73 | ↑ +8% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $586.73 | ↑ +8% |
| Premera | HMO | $714.90 | ↑ +32% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $804.61 | ↑ +49% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $954.46 | ↑ +76% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $986.96 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $986.96 | ↑ +83% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,078.21 | ↑ +99% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,251.07 | ↑ +131% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,454.11 | ↑ +169% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,454.11 | ↑ +169% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,495.65 | ↑ +177% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,618.28 | ↑ +199% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,654.70 | ↑ +206% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,661.84 | ↑ +207% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,746.78 | ↑ +223% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,766.85 | ↑ +227% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,865.50 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,986.57 | ↑ +267% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,033.66 | ↑ +276% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,129.31 | ↑ +294% |
| First Choice | PPO | $2,360.51 | ↑ +336% |
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Dialysis one evaluation at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,499.40 | $464.97 – $511.47 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $5,091.36 | $483.19 – $1,653.41 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,857.10 | $179.76 – $1,266.44 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $5,091.36 | $483.19 – $1,477.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $5,091.36 | $368.85 – $1,653.41 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,814.40 | $247.72 – $860.20 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,281.70 | $144.00 – $1,375.50 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $3,792.60 | $156.74 – $1,220.56 |