Alcohol/subs interv 15-30mn at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$71.91
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.
$141.00
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.
$1.04 with first choice vs $1,690.14 with confluence health — 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 | $1.04 | ↓ -99% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $22.72 | ↓ -68% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $27.58 | ↓ -62% |
| cigna | commercial | $30.95 | ↓ -57% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $32.27 | ↓ -55% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $32.45 | ↓ -55% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $32.45 | ↓ -55% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $32.45 | ↓ -55% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $32.45 | ↓ -55% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $32.45 | ↓ -55% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $33.17 | ↓ -54% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $33.42 | ↓ -54% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $33.73 | ↓ -53% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $34.07 | ↓ -53% |
| aetna | commercial | $38.54 | ↓ -46% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $58.16 | ↓ -19% |
| premera | commercial | $68.83 | ↓ -4% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $85.02 | ↑ +18% |
| regence | commercial | $85.49 | ↑ +19% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $87.30 | ↑ +21% |
| cigna | local plus | $104.11 | ↑ +45% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $434.18 | ↑ +504% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $1,690.14 | ↑ +2250% |
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Alcohol/subs interv 15-30mn at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $43.39 – $131.81 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $43.39 – $124.31 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $68.44 | $97.69 – $139.88 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $47.35 | $66.68 – $196.13 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $47.16 | $80.76 – $184.72 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $51.36 | $80.76 – $184.72 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $54.79 | $26.36 – $139.55 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $48.66 | $80.76 – $184.72 |