Nerve teasing preparations at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$1,888.40
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.
$4,721.00
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 $4,111.36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $28.69 | ↓ -98% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $28.69 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $30.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $30.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $30.98 | ↓ -98% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $921.47 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $949.12 | ↓ -50% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $949.12 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $958.33 | ↓ -49% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $967.55 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $967.55 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,013.62 | ↓ -46% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,454.67 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,553.60 | ↓ -18% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,842.94 | ↓ -2% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,093.29 | ↑ +11% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,117.54 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,757.21 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,757.21 | ↑ +46% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,823.07 | ↑ +49% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,823.07 | ↑ +49% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,903.73 | ↑ +54% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,956.56 | ↑ +57% |
| Premera | Signature | $3,141.80 | ↑ +66% |
| Premera | Prime | $3,212.50 | ↑ +70% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,226.36 | ↑ +71% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $3,595.24 | ↑ +90% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,811.10 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $3,867.44 | ↑ +105% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,948.23 | ↑ +109% |
| First Choice | PPO | $3,995.35 | ↑ +112% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4,111.36 | ↑ +118% |
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Nerve teasing preparations at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,048.00 | $2,020.00 – $2,020.00 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $970.00 | $27.41 – $3,455.47 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,888.40 | $28.04 – $3,867.44 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $813.45 | $2,300.02 – $2,300.02 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $2,139.60 | $30.18 – $4,168.36 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,888.40 | $28.04 – $3,867.44 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,888.40 | $28.56 – $6,107.25 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,888.40 | $28.70 – $3,867.44 |