Bladder Catheter Insertion (simple) at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
$342.24
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.
$713.00
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.
$154.07 with Kaiser vs $653.50 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 | $154.07 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $158.69 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $160.23 | ↓ -53% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $161.77 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $163.31 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $166.39 | ↓ -51% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $169.48 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $184.88 | ↓ -46% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $231.10 | ↓ -32% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $246.51 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $277.32 | ↓ -19% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $285.03 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Uniform Exchange | $340.24 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Uniform Exchange | $340.24 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Uniform Exchange | $340.24 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Uniform Exchange | $340.24 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $367.62 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $418.90 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $447.90 | ↑ +31% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Regence All Commercial Plans | $456.41 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Regence All Commercial Plans | $456.41 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Regence All Commercial Plans | $456.41 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Regence All Commercial Plans | $456.41 | ↑ +33% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $467.25 | ↑ +37% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $468.06 | ↑ +37% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $511.26 | ↑ +49% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $512.44 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $545.15 | ↑ +59% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $550.29 | ↑ +61% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $653.50 | ↑ +91% |
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Bladder Catheter Insertion (simple) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $342.24 | $154.07 – $496.09 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $265.71 | $1.87 – $213.71 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $56.00 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $301.70 | $148.26 – $392.51 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $342.24 | $154.50 – $512.44 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $320.84 | $154.07 – $679.26 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $51.10 | not published |