Swallowing Therapy Session at Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus
747 Broadway, Seattle, WA · Providence · · NPI 1306992151
$261.60
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.
$545.00
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.
$69.39 with Unitedhealthcare vs $309.81 with Aetna — 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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| Unitedhealthcare | Navigate Exchange | $69.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Aco Tiered Other Commercial Plan | $86.74 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $89.34 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $90.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $91.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Choice Care Medicare Managed Care Plan | $91.94 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $93.68 | ↓ -64% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $95.41 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $104.09 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature Exchange | $129.77 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $130.11 | ↓ -50% |
| Community Health Plan | Cascade Care Exchange | $138.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $152.68 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $156.13 | ↓ -40% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $160.47 | ↓ -39% |
| First Choice | Health Administrators All Commercial Plans | $170.05 | ↓ -35% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $232.71 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Whole Health Other Commercial Plan | $235.84 | ↓ -10% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature/Choice Network Other Commercial Plan | $263.52 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $309.81 | ↑ +18% |
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Swallowing Therapy Session at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $261.60 | $69.39 – $268.51 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $386.40 | not published |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $204.51 | $2.48 – $290.69 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $228.69 | $86.74 – $95.41 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $141.40 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $338.80 | $86.74 – $220.75 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $261.60 | $69.39 – $192.56 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $344.24 | $86.74 – $207.65 |