Lung Function Test Before and After an Inhaler at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
$849.12
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.
$1,769.00
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.
$432.11 with Kaiser vs $1,832.87 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 | $432.11 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $445.08 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $449.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $453.72 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $458.04 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $466.68 | ↓ -45% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $475.32 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $518.54 | ↓ -39% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $648.17 | ↓ -24% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $691.38 | ↓ -19% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $777.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $799.41 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Uniform Exchange | $836.02 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Uniform Exchange | $836.02 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Uniform Exchange | $836.02 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Uniform Exchange | $836.02 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $903.33 | ↑ +6% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $1,100.61 | ↑ +30% |
| Blue Shield-Mill Creek | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,121.48 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Shield-First Hill | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,121.48 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Shield-Ballard | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,121.48 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Shield-Redmond | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,121.48 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $1,174.89 | ↑ +38% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $1,189.57 | ↑ +40% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $1,265.50 | ↑ +49% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $1,310.50 | ↑ +54% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $1,312.76 | ↑ +55% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $1,433.93 | ↑ +69% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,543.39 | ↑ +82% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,832.87 | ↑ +116% |
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Lung Function Test Before and After an Inhaler at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $849.12 | $432.11 – $1,151.61 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $699.20 | not published |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $592.62 | $1.35 – $1,762.13 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $406.00 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,176.70 | $415.83 – $1,058.28 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $849.12 | $433.33 – $1,189.57 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $951.60 | $432.11 – $1,576.81 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $430.50 | not published |