Epilepsy gen seq alys panel at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$1,873.20
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.
$4,683.00
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.
$286.81 with Molina vs $4,799.18 with Ambetter — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $286.81 | ↓ -85% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $286.81 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $309.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $309.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $309.76 | ↓ -83% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,399.59 | ↑ +28% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,448.56 | ↑ +31% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,448.56 | ↑ +31% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,448.56 | ↑ +31% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,463.86 | ↑ +32% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,463.86 | ↑ +32% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,471.58 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,471.58 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $2,495.57 | ↑ +33% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,519.57 | ↑ +35% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,519.57 | ↑ +35% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,534.26 | ↑ +35% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,639.55 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $2,693.42 | ↑ +44% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,734.58 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,734.58 | ↑ +46% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,815.84 | ↑ +50% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,815.84 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,938.27 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,938.27 | ↑ +57% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,060.70 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,281.07 | ↑ +75% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $4,045.71 | ↑ +116% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $4,799.18 | ↑ +156% |
| First Choice | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | not published by hospital | — |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Epilepsy gen seq alys panel at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,873.20 | $280.33 – $4,799.18 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,469.20 | $301.68 – $4,439.24 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,873.20 | $280.33 – $4,799.18 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,873.20 | $285.49 – $2,815.84 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,873.20 | $286.92 – $4,799.18 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $2,448.56 – $2,693.42 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $2,203.70 – $7,438.73 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $2,448.56 – $6,231.59 |