Knee Arthroscopy (Cartilage Smoothing) at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
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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.
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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.
$3,788.94 with Kaiser vs $16,071.34 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 | $3,788.94 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,902.61 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $3,940.50 | — |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,978.39 | — |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,016.28 | — |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,092.06 | — |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,167.84 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,546.73 | — |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $5,683.41 | — |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $6,062.31 | — |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $6,820.10 | — |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $7,009.54 | — |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7,277.00 | — |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Uniform Exchange | $8,621.41 | — |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Uniform Exchange | $8,621.41 | — |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Uniform Exchange | $8,621.41 | — |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Uniform Exchange | $8,621.41 | — |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $9,315.42 | — |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $10,301.89 | — |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $11,349.75 | — |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $11,490.98 | — |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $11,510.81 | — |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Regence All Commercial Plans | $11,565.11 | — |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Regence All Commercial Plans | $11,565.11 | — |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Regence All Commercial Plans | $11,565.11 | — |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Regence All Commercial Plans | $11,565.11 | — |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $12,573.25 | — |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $13,331.38 | — |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $13,533.12 | — |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $14,043.12 | — |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $16,071.34 | — |
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Knee Arthroscopy (Cartilage Smoothing) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $4,773.09 | $18.37 – $2,687.51 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $3,788.94 – $12,838.64 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $3,646.14 – $4,010.75 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $3,646.14 – $9,279.41 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | not published | $3,799.57 – $13,331.38 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $3,788.94 – $16,014.08 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | not published | $2,836.00 – $13,249.26 |