Place right device/marker pros at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$3,064.00
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.
$7,660.00
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.
$1,243.00 with Molina vs $7,920.36 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 |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $1,243.00 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,342.44 | ↓ -56% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,342.44 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,342.44 | ↓ -56% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,342.44 | ↓ -56% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,583.06 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,630.55 | ↓ -47% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,630.55 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,646.38 | ↓ -46% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,662.21 | ↓ -46% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,662.21 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,741.36 | ↓ -43% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,511.54 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,669.04 | ↓ -13% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,166.12 | ↑ +3% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $3,373.14 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $4,197.79 | ↑ +37% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $4,549.11 | ↑ +48% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $4,549.11 | ↑ +48% |
| Regence | RealValue | $4,679.09 | ↑ +53% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,062.71 | ↑ +65% |
| Premera | Prime | $5,176.63 | ↑ +69% |
| Regence | Commercial | $5,198.99 | ↑ +70% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $5,301.26 | ↑ +73% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $5,301.26 | ↑ +73% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $5,861.07 | ↑ +91% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $6,207.30 | ↑ +103% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $6,362.19 | ↑ +108% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $6,383.35 | ↑ +108% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $6,644.13 | ↑ +117% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $7,063.19 | ↑ +131% |
| First Choice | PPO | $7,920.36 | ↑ +158% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,750.24 | $1,602.81 – $5,853.10 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,317.30 | $1,542.40 – $4,483.22 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,750.24 | $1,602.81 – $5,666.30 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,750.24 | $1,607.31 – $5,853.10 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,603.30 | $1,227.80 – $2,853.44 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $2,578.80 | $1,187.75 – $5,965.98 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $1,603.20 | $1,651.25 – $4,312.57 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $3,064.00 | $1,214.91 – $6,644.13 |