Group mnt 2 or more 30 mins at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$38.40
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.
$96.00
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.
$12.33 with United Healthcare vs $72.18 with Kaiser — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $12.33 | ↓ -68% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $12.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $12.70 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $12.70 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $12.82 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $12.94 | ↓ -66% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $12.94 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $13.56 | ↓ -65% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $18.20 | ↓ -53% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $18.20 | ↓ -53% |
| Regence | RealValue | $18.72 | ↓ -51% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $19.37 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $20.27 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $20.79 | ↓ -46% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $20.80 | ↓ -46% |
| Regence | Commercial | $20.80 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $23.24 | ↓ -39% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $24.66 | ↓ -36% |
| Premera | HMO | $25.15 | ↓ -35% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $27.04 | ↓ -30% |
| Premera | Signature | $27.58 | ↓ -28% |
| Premera | Prime | $27.58 | ↓ -28% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $33.70 | ↓ -12% |
| First Choice | PPO | $36.54 | ↓ -5% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $70.08 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $70.08 | ↑ +83% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $72.18 | ↑ +88% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Group mnt 2 or more 30 mins at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $44.64 | $10.06 – $38.22 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $44.64 | $10.06 – $48.72 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $44.64 | $10.06 – $30.86 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $29.37 | $16.81 – $59.88 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $20.32 | $18.58 – $62.15 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $20.24 | $16.81 – $64.25 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $38.40 | $12.33 – $72.18 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $22.04 | $16.81 – $64.25 |