Face, Eye Socket and Neck MRI (with and without contrast) at Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill
500 17th Ave, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1356496582
$2,218.56
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.
$4,622.00
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.
$403.99 with Kaiser vs $1,756.51 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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| Kaiser | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $403.99 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $416.11 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $420.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $424.19 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $428.23 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $436.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $444.39 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $484.79 | ↓ -78% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $605.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $646.39 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $727.19 | ↓ -67% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $747.39 | ↓ -66% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $945.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield | Uniform Exchange | $1,062.62 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $1,098.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $1,106.78 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,197.39 | ↓ -46% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $1,225.21 | ↓ -45% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $1,340.61 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $1,348.48 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,418.05 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,442.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,713.59 | ↓ -23% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators Other Commercial Plan | $1,737.42 | ↓ -22% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $1,756.51 | ↓ -21% |
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Face, Eye Socket and Neck MRI (with and without contrast) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,218.56 | $403.99 – $1,794.70 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,000.00 | $358.00 – $358.00 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,782.96 | $5.56 – $2,069.84 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $3,028.90 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $4,123.70 | $388.77 – $1,374.66 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,218.56 | $405.13 – $1,794.70 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,512.16 | $403.99 – $2,378.93 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $3,028.90 | not published |