Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) CT Scan (with contrast) at Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill
500 17th Ave, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1356496582
$1,763.04
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.
$3,673.00
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.
$203.11 with Kaiser vs $861.53 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 | $203.11 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $209.21 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $211.24 | ↓ -88% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $213.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $215.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $219.36 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $223.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $243.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $304.67 | ↓ -83% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $324.98 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $365.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $375.76 | ↓ -79% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $475.28 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Shield | Uniform Exchange | $507.67 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $528.78 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $552.25 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $572.07 | ↓ -68% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $615.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $644.25 | ↓ -63% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $674.01 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $677.48 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $725.46 | ↓ -59% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators Other Commercial Plan | $829.10 | ↓ -53% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $838.21 | ↓ -52% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $861.53 | ↓ -51% |
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Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) CT Scan (with contrast) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,763.04 | $203.11 – $856.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,920.00 | $179.00 – $179.00 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,268.37 | $5.37 – $854.05 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,358.28 | $195.46 – $215.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,453.90 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,597.40 | $195.46 – $655.99 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,763.04 | $203.68 – $856.43 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,474.72 | $203.11 – $1,135.23 |