Drug assay caffeine at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$44.40
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.
$111.00
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.
$7.45 with Molina vs $178.96 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 | $7.45 | ↓ -83% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $7.45 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $8.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $8.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $8.04 | ↓ -82% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $37.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Premera | HMO | $38.57 | ↓ -13% |
| Premera | Signature | $38.57 | ↓ -13% |
| Premera | Prime | $38.57 | ↓ -13% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $38.81 | ↓ -13% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $38.81 | ↓ -13% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $38.84 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $38.93 | ↓ -12% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $38.93 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $39.31 | ↓ -11% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $39.69 | ↓ -11% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $39.69 | ↓ -11% |
| Regence | RealValue | $39.92 | ↓ -10% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $41.58 | ↓ -6% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $42.43 | ↓ -4% |
| Regence | Commercial | $44.36 | ↓ -0% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $44.36 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $46.28 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $46.28 | ↑ +4% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $48.21 | ↑ +9% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $54.23 | ↑ +22% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $63.73 | ↑ +44% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $64.97 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $64.97 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice | PPO | $73.28 | ↑ +65% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $75.60 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $178.96 | ↑ +303% |
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Drug assay caffeine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $39.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $36.48 | $34.71 – $181.28 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $82.60 | $38.57 – $138.85 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $36.48 | $34.71 – $175.49 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $36.48 | $34.71 – $181.28 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $39.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $36.40 | $38.57 – $71.35 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $86.10 | $38.57 – $164.62 |