Blood Transfusion at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
$423.84
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.
$883.00
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.
$510.88 with Kaiser vs $7,277.00 with Cigna — 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 | $510.88 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $526.20 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $531.31 | ↑ +25% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $536.42 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $541.53 | ↑ +28% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $551.75 | ↑ +30% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $561.96 | ↑ +33% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $613.05 | ↑ +45% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $766.31 | ↑ +81% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $817.40 | ↑ +93% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $919.58 | ↑ +117% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $945.12 | ↑ +123% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Uniform Exchange | $1,156.25 | ↑ +173% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Uniform Exchange | $1,156.25 | ↑ +173% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Uniform Exchange | $1,156.25 | ↑ +173% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Uniform Exchange | $1,156.25 | ↑ +173% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $1,249.33 | ↑ +195% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $1,389.04 | ↑ +228% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $1,522.17 | ↑ +259% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $1,549.37 | ↑ +266% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,551.04 | ↑ +266% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,551.04 | ↑ +266% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,551.04 | ↑ +266% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,551.04 | ↑ +266% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $1,552.04 | ↑ +266% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $1,695.29 | ↑ +300% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $1,823.79 | ↑ +330% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,824.71 | ↑ +331% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $1,940.20 | ↑ +358% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,166.95 | ↑ +411% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7,277.00 | ↑ +1617% |
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Blood Transfusion at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $423.84 | $510.88 – $1,765.58 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $7,520.00 | not published |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $856.29 | $1.08 – $149.99 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $917.70 | $491.62 – $540.78 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $149.10 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $968.80 | $491.62 – $1,396.94 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $423.84 | $512.31 – $1,823.79 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,083.16 | $510.88 – $2,417.49 |