Fluoroscopy (Live X-ray Guidance, up to 1 hour) at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
$739.68
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.
$1,541.00
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.
$276.30 with Kaiser vs $1,171.96 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 | $276.30 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $284.59 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $287.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $290.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $292.88 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $298.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $303.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $331.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $414.45 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $442.08 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $497.34 | ↓ -33% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $511.15 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Uniform Exchange | $677.06 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Uniform Exchange | $677.06 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Uniform Exchange | $677.06 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Uniform Exchange | $677.06 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $705.19 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $751.24 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $762.93 | ↑ +3% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $837.95 | ↑ +13% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $839.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $859.20 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Regence All Commercial Plans | $903.53 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Regence All Commercial Plans | $903.53 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Regence All Commercial Plans | $903.53 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Regence All Commercial Plans | $903.53 | ↑ +22% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $916.87 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $986.87 | ↑ +33% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $1,095.29 | ↑ +48% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $1,165.20 | ↑ +58% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,171.96 | ↑ +58% |
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Fluoroscopy (Live X-ray Guidance, up to 1 hour) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $739.68 | $276.30 – $1,060.33 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $880.00 | $242.00 – $242.00 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $537.54 | $1.25 – $275.41 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $367.50 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $450.10 | $265.88 – $838.94 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $739.68 | $116.27 – $1,095.29 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $304.72 | $276.30 – $1,451.84 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $459.20 | not published |