IV Medicine Infusion (each additional hour) at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
$83.04
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.
$173.00
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.
$54.22 with Kaiser vs $230.00 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 | $54.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $55.85 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $56.39 | ↓ -32% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $56.93 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $57.48 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $58.56 | ↓ -29% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $59.65 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $65.07 | ↓ -22% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $81.34 | ↓ -2% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $86.76 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $97.60 | ↑ +18% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $100.31 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Uniform Exchange | $126.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Uniform Exchange | $126.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Uniform Exchange | $126.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Uniform Exchange | $126.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $136.69 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $147.43 | ↑ +78% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $164.45 | ↑ +98% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $164.73 | ↑ +98% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $166.55 | ↑ +101% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Regence All Commercial Plans | $169.73 | ↑ +104% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Regence All Commercial Plans | $169.73 | ↑ +104% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Regence All Commercial Plans | $169.73 | ↑ +104% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Regence All Commercial Plans | $169.73 | ↑ +104% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $179.12 | ↑ +116% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $179.94 | ↑ +117% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $190.55 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $193.67 | ↑ +133% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $230.00 | ↑ +177% |
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IV Medicine Infusion (each additional hour) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $83.04 | $54.22 – $173.40 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $92.31 | $0.64 – $728.86 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $142.80 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $72.80 | $52.18 – $137.20 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $83.04 | $54.38 – $179.12 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $119.08 | $54.22 – $237.43 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $141.40 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $114.80 | $42.09 – $96.53 |