_fragile x methylation-sendout at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$31.60
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.
$79.00
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.
$30.75 with Molina vs $101.00 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 |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $30.75 | ↓ -3% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $30.75 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $33.21 | ↑ +5% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $33.21 | ↑ +5% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $33.21 | ↑ +5% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $43.99 | ↑ +39% |
| Premera | HMO | $44.89 | ↑ +42% |
| Premera | Prime | $44.89 | ↑ +42% |
| Premera | Signature | $44.89 | ↑ +42% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $45.17 | ↑ +43% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $45.17 | ↑ +43% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $45.31 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $45.31 | ↑ +43% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $45.75 | ↑ +45% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $45.99 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $45.99 | ↑ +46% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $46.19 | ↑ +46% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $46.19 | ↑ +46% |
| Regence | RealValue | $46.46 | ↑ +47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $48.39 | ↑ +53% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $49.38 | ↑ +56% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $51.62 | ↑ +63% |
| Regence | Commercial | $51.62 | ↑ +63% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $53.53 | ↑ +69% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $53.87 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $53.87 | ↑ +70% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $56.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $60.15 | ↑ +90% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $74.17 | ↑ +135% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $74.74 | ↑ +137% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $87.98 | ↑ +178% |
| First Choice | PPO | $101.00 | ↑ +220% |
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_fragile x methylation-sendout at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $124.32 | $40.40 – $136.38 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $124.32 | $40.40 – $134.67 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $124.32 | $40.40 – $99.66 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $240.54 | $44.89 – $420.02 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $166.42 | $44.89 – $420.02 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $165.77 | $44.89 – $350.01 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $31.60 | $30.06 – $87.98 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $180.51 | $44.89 – $350.01 |