Microbe susceptible mlc at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$25.60
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.
$64.00
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 WellPoint vs $186.39 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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| WellPoint | Apple Health | $19.51 | ↓ -24% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $19.51 | ↓ -24% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $21.07 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $21.07 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $21.07 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $37.23 | ↑ +45% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $37.23 | ↑ +45% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $39.37 | ↑ +54% |
| Premera | HMO | $40.17 | ↑ +57% |
| Premera | Prime | $40.17 | ↑ +57% |
| Premera | Signature | $40.17 | ↑ +57% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $40.42 | ↑ +58% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $40.42 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $40.45 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $40.55 | ↑ +58% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $40.55 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $40.94 | ↑ +60% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $41.33 | ↑ +61% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $41.33 | ↑ +61% |
| Regence | RealValue | $41.58 | ↑ +62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $43.30 | ↑ +69% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $44.19 | ↑ +73% |
| Regence | Commercial | $46.20 | ↑ +80% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $46.20 | ↑ +80% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $48.20 | ↑ +88% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $48.20 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $50.21 | ↑ +96% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $56.48 | ↑ +121% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $66.37 | ↑ +159% |
| First Choice | PPO | $76.32 | ↑ +198% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $78.73 | ↑ +208% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $186.39 | ↑ +628% |
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Microbe susceptible mlc at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $180.80 | $31.00 – $31.00 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $96.60 | $40.17 – $171.43 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $144.00 | $18.64 – $72.83 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $64.64 | $40.17 – $131.80 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $44.72 | $40.17 – $131.80 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $44.54 | $40.17 – $109.83 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $25.60 | $19.06 – $78.73 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $48.51 | $40.17 – $109.83 |