Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$1,585.60
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.
$3,964.00
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.
$416.21 with Molina vs $4,330.02 with First Choice — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $416.21 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $449.50 | ↓ -72% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $449.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $449.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $449.50 | ↓ -72% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $896.59 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $923.48 | ↓ -42% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $923.48 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $932.45 | ↓ -41% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $941.42 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $941.42 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $986.25 | ↓ -38% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,387.67 | ↓ -12% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,511.64 | ↓ -5% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,793.17 | ↑ +13% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,949.16 | ↑ +23% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,294.91 | ↑ +45% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,628.69 | ↑ +66% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,628.69 | ↑ +66% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,703.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,893.72 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,893.72 | ↑ +83% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,925.47 | ↑ +85% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,991.30 | ↑ +89% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,004.22 | ↑ +89% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $3,204.21 | ↑ +102% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $3,429.67 | ↑ +116% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,676.37 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,685.84 | ↑ +132% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $3,762.98 | ↑ +137% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4,000.32 | ↑ +152% |
| First Choice | PPO | $4,330.02 | ↑ +173% |
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Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,810.56 | $907.77 – $3,199.85 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,963.50 | $873.56 – $2,450.95 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,810.56 | $907.77 – $3,097.73 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,810.56 | $910.32 – $3,199.85 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $870.80 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,353.40 | $709.48 – $1,616.08 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $2,489.90 | $205.96 – $2,662.01 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $2,716.70 | $873.56 – $6,462.00 |