3d ech img cgen car anomal at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$346.80
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.
$680.00
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.
$23.89 with united healthcare vs $1,085.74 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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| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $23.89 | ↓ -93% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $23.89 | ↓ -93% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $23.89 | ↓ -93% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $23.89 | ↓ -93% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $23.89 | ↓ -93% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $24.50 | ↓ -93% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $24.59 | ↓ -93% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $24.59 | ↓ -93% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $24.59 | ↓ -93% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $26.43 | ↓ -92% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $44.40 | ↓ -87% |
| premera | commercial | $52.55 | ↓ -85% |
| cigna | commercial | $80.88 | ↓ -77% |
| regence | commercial | $136.95 | ↓ -61% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $410.04 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | commercial | $428.40 | ↑ +24% |
| first choice | commercial | $435.54 | ↑ +26% |
| cigna | local plus | $502.11 | ↑ +45% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $544.00 | ↑ +57% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $1,085.74 | ↑ +213% |
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3d ech img cgen car anomal at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,092.70 | $333.57 – $333.57 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $695.10 | $41.89 – $41.89 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,072.40 | $240.74 – $240.74 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $690.56 | $314.53 – $314.53 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $750.88 | $333.57 – $333.57 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $540.00 | $314.78 – $333.30 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $540.00 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $524.06 | $748.06 – $1,068.66 |