Infectious agent nucleic acid amp probe mycobacterium tuberculosis rifampin resistance at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$213.60
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.
$534.00
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.
$19.51 with Molina vs $356.21 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 | $19.51 | ↓ -91% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $19.51 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $21.07 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $21.07 | ↓ -90% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $21.07 | ↓ -90% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $75.23 | ↓ -65% |
| Premera | Signature | $76.77 | ↓ -64% |
| Premera | Prime | $76.77 | ↓ -64% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $77.49 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $77.49 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $78.24 | ↓ -63% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $79.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $79.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $82.76 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $84.45 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $92.12 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $92.12 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $95.96 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $126.85 | ↓ -41% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $150.47 | ↓ -30% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $311.71 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $311.71 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $356.21 | ↑ +67% |
| Regence | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | not published by hospital | — |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | RealValue | not published by hospital | — |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| First Choice | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amp probe mycobacterium tuberculosis rifampin resistance at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $211.20 | $76.77 – $142.02 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $228.80 | $76.77 – $178.11 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $227.60 | $18.64 – $139.18 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $170.80 | $82.19 – $137.79 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $216.08 | $308.43 – $440.62 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $149.50 | $210.52 – $440.62 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $148.91 | $352.50 – $367.18 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $213.60 | $19.06 – $150.47 |