Echocardiogram (Limited Follow-Up Heart Ultrasound) at Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill
500 17th Ave, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1356496582
$1,184.64
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.
$2,468.00
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.
$276.30 with Kaiser vs $1,171.96 with Unitedhealthcare — 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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| Kaiser | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $276.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $284.59 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $287.35 | ↓ -76% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $290.11 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $292.88 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $298.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $303.93 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $331.56 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $414.45 | ↓ -65% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $442.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $497.34 | ↓ -58% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $511.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $646.54 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Shield | Uniform Exchange | $652.67 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $705.19 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $751.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $837.95 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $859.20 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $875.51 | ↓ -26% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $916.87 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $986.87 | ↓ -17% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators Other Commercial Plan | $1,060.33 | ↓ -10% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $1,071.98 | ↓ -10% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,171.96 | ↓ -1% |
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Echocardiogram (Limited Follow-Up Heart Ultrasound) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,184.64 | $276.30 – $1,095.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $953.60 | not published |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $616.08 | $2.95 – $367.82 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $274.05 | $83.92 – $292.47 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $434.00 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $789.60 | $265.88 – $838.94 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,184.64 | $277.07 – $1,095.29 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $752.96 | $276.30 – $1,451.84 |