Insitu hybridization manual at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$633.60
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.
$1,584.00
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.
$28.69 with Molina vs $1,829.14 with United Healthcare — 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 | $28.69 | ↓ -95% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $28.69 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $30.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $30.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $30.98 | ↓ -95% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $409.96 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $422.26 | ↓ -33% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $422.26 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $426.36 | ↓ -33% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $430.46 | ↓ -32% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $430.46 | ↓ -32% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $450.96 | ↓ -29% |
| Premera | HMO | $607.17 | ↓ -4% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $691.20 | ↑ +9% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $819.92 | ↑ +29% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $875.04 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $924.91 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $924.91 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $955.32 | ↑ +51% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,180.10 | ↑ +86% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,180.10 | ↑ +86% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,213.82 | ↑ +92% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,313.32 | ↑ +107% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,333.84 | ↑ +111% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,342.87 | ↑ +112% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,348.69 | ↑ +113% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,500.63 | ↑ +137% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,650.42 | ↑ +160% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,678.19 | ↑ +165% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,720.62 | ↑ +172% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,802.49 | ↑ +184% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,829.14 | ↑ +189% |
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Insitu hybridization manual at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $189.63 | $136.43 – $439.38 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $210.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $255.84 | $205.59 – $1,332.03 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $266.00 | $226.15 – $1,020.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $255.84 | $205.59 – $1,289.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $255.84 | $205.59 – $1,332.03 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $856.00 | $890.00 – $890.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $233.80 | not published |