Hla i & ii typing lr at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$720.00
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.
$1,800.00
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.
$394.08 with SCAN vs $1,051.20 with Multiplan/PHCS — 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 | $394.08 | ↓ -45% |
| Premera | HMO | $402.12 | ↓ -44% |
| Premera | Prime | $402.12 | ↓ -44% |
| Premera | Signature | $402.12 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $404.63 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $404.63 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $405.90 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $405.90 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $409.84 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $413.78 | ↓ -43% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $413.78 | ↓ -43% |
| Regence | RealValue | $416.19 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $433.49 | ↓ -40% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $442.33 | ↓ -39% |
| Regence | Commercial | $462.44 | ↓ -36% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $462.44 | ↓ -36% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $479.53 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $482.54 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $482.54 | ↓ -33% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $502.65 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $538.84 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $664.41 | ↓ -8% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $669.53 | ↓ -7% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $788.16 | ↑ +9% |
| First Choice | PPO | $904.77 | ↑ +26% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,051.20 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,051.20 | ↑ +46% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,516.80 | $361.91 – $1,221.64 |
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| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $720.00 | $394.08 – $788.16 |
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| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $576.00 | $394.08 – $729.04 |