Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
401 15th Avenue Southeast, Puyallup, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1841231461
$1,257.20
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.
$3,143.00
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.
$524.65 with Molina vs $8,428.11 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 | $524.65 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $566.62 | ↓ -55% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $566.62 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $566.62 | ↓ -55% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $566.62 | ↓ -55% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,888.97 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +55% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +55% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,964.52 | ↑ +56% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +58% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,056.22 | ↑ +64% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,077.86 | ↑ +65% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,294.39 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,294.39 | ↑ +83% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,809.17 | ↑ +123% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,870.95 | ↑ +128% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,184.80 | ↑ +153% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,777.93 | ↑ +201% |
| First Choice | PPO | $3,879.66 | ↑ +209% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $3,946.84 | ↑ +214% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $5,322.82 | ↑ +323% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $5,322.82 | ↑ +323% |
| Regence | RealValue | $5,474.90 | ↑ +335% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,923.75 | ↑ +371% |
| Premera | Prime | $6,057.05 | ↑ +382% |
| Regence | Commercial | $6,083.23 | ↑ +384% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $6,942.92 | ↑ +452% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $7,444.25 | ↑ +492% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $7,558.89 | ↑ +501% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7,928.07 | ↑ +531% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $8,428.11 | ↑ +570% |
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Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,899.84 | $1,912.53 – $5,810.27 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,400.70 | $1,840.45 – $4,683.94 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,899.84 | $1,912.53 – $4,475.33 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,899.84 | $1,917.90 – $4,257.73 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $2,022.30 | $229.21 – $3,404.83 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,638.00 | $1,840.45 – $9,894.00 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $2,870.92 | $1,880.84 – $17,863.00 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $1,307.20 | $501.33 – $6,673.00 |