Gallbladder Function Scan (HIDA with Medication) at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
$1,547.04
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.
$3,223.00
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.
$628.75 with Kaiser vs $2,666.95 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 | $628.75 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $647.62 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $653.90 | ↓ -58% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $660.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $666.48 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $679.05 | ↓ -56% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $691.63 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $754.50 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $943.13 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $1,006.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $1,131.76 | ↓ -27% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $1,163.19 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Uniform Exchange | $1,493.47 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Uniform Exchange | $1,493.47 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Uniform Exchange | $1,493.47 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Uniform Exchange | $1,493.47 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $1,555.56 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,682.91 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $1,709.54 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $1,895.26 | ↑ +23% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $1,906.86 | ↑ +23% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $1,910.15 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,993.01 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,993.01 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,993.01 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,993.01 | ↑ +29% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $2,086.46 | ↑ +35% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $2,218.31 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,245.74 | ↑ +45% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $2,359.90 | ↑ +53% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,666.95 | ↑ +72% |
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Gallbladder Function Scan (HIDA with Medication) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,547.04 | $628.75 – $2,147.51 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,848.00 | $539.00 – $539.00 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,402.50 | $12.96 – $1,550.71 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $4,195.10 | $605.06 – $1,699.13 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,547.04 | $630.52 – $2,218.31 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,351.48 | $628.75 – $2,940.44 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,083.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,157.10 | $478.94 – $1,119.35 |