Speech Therapy Session (one-on-one) at Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill
500 17th Ave, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1356496582
$238.56
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.
$497.00
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.
$68.50 with Unitedhealthcare vs $305.81 with Aetna — 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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| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $68.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $85.62 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $88.19 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $89.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $89.90 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $90.76 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $92.47 | ↓ -61% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $94.18 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $102.74 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $116.82 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $128.43 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $136.99 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $137.43 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $154.12 | ↓ -35% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $158.40 | ↓ -34% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $200.35 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $232.80 | ↓ -2% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $243.60 | ↑ +2% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators Other Commercial Plan | $252.54 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $305.81 | ↑ +28% |
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Speech Therapy Session (one-on-one) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $238.56 | $68.50 – $260.11 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $238.68 | $2.24 – $261.78 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $210.42 | $85.62 – $94.18 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $149.10 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $346.50 | $85.62 – $217.90 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $238.56 | $68.50 – $190.08 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $325.52 | $85.62 – $188.39 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $145.60 | not published |