EKG (Tracing Only) at Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill
500 17th Ave, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1356496582
$178.08
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.
$371.00
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.
$68.31 with Kaiser vs $289.76 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 | $68.31 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $70.36 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $71.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $71.73 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $72.41 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $73.78 | ↓ -59% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $75.14 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $81.97 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $102.47 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $109.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $122.96 | ↓ -31% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $126.38 | ↓ -29% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $159.85 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield | Uniform Exchange | $162.92 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $176.02 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $185.74 | ↑ +4% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $207.18 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $214.46 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $218.55 | ↑ +23% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $226.69 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $243.99 | ↑ +37% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators Other Commercial Plan | $250.30 | ↑ +41% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $253.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $289.76 | ↑ +63% |
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EKG (Tracing Only) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $178.08 | $68.31 – $258.55 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $269.60 | not published |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $191.76 | $0.19 – $164.84 |
| Navos Multi-Treatment Center | Seattle | $142.00 | not published |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $76.23 | $65.74 – $72.31 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $140.00 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $270.20 | $65.74 – $198.04 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $178.08 | $29.82 – $258.55 |