Actigraphy testing at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$96.39
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.
$189.00
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.
$4.50 with first choice vs $1,194.00 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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| first choice | commercial | $4.50 | ↓ -95% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $14.09 | ↓ -85% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $45.29 | ↓ -53% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $54.99 | ↓ -43% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $64.70 | ↓ -33% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $64.70 | ↓ -33% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $64.70 | ↓ -33% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $64.70 | ↓ -33% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $64.70 | ↓ -33% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $66.64 | ↓ -31% |
| premera | commercial | $113.40 | ↑ +18% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $113.97 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | commercial | $119.07 | ↑ +24% |
| regence | commercial | $132.30 | ↑ +37% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $132.30 | ↑ +37% |
| cigna | local plus | $139.56 | ↑ +45% |
| cigna | commercial | $139.56 | ↑ +45% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $148.79 | ↑ +54% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $151.20 | ↑ +57% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $156.75 | ↑ +63% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $159.21 | ↑ +65% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $388.42 | ↑ +303% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $1,194.00 | ↑ +1139% |
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Actigraphy testing at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $68.31 – $258.55 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $68.31 – $250.30 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $203.00 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $210.70 | $54.20 – $121.61 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $129.50 | $65.74 – $172.56 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $254.40 | $47.38 – $283.18 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $254.40 | $48.48 – $283.18 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $254.40 | $50.99 – $305.21 |