Analyze neurostimulator simple w/reprogramming 95971 at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$249.90
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.
$490.00
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.
$1.43 with first choice vs $893.24 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 | $1.43 | ↓ -99% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $39.77 | ↓ -84% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $40.20 | ↓ -84% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $40.20 | ↓ -84% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $40.20 | ↓ -84% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $40.20 | ↓ -84% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $40.20 | ↓ -84% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $41.25 | ↓ -83% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $41.25 | ↓ -83% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $41.25 | ↓ -83% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $42.91 | ↓ -83% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $71.92 | ↓ -71% |
| premera | commercial | $85.11 | ↓ -66% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $102.99 | ↓ -59% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $104.98 | ↓ -58% |
| regence | commercial | $117.86 | ↓ -53% |
| cigna | commercial | $131.33 | ↓ -47% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $152.70 | ↓ -39% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $194.24 | ↓ -22% |
| aetna | commercial | $308.70 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $338.65 | ↑ +36% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $540.92 | ↑ +116% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $893.24 | ↑ +257% |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $396.48 | $110.09 – $533.12 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $396.48 | $110.09 – $516.11 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $396.48 | $110.40 – $533.12 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $183.20 | $99.40 – $444.15 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $138.40 | $113.42 – $301.28 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $364.40 | $101.68 – $462.12 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $364.40 | $104.03 – $462.12 |