Biopsy lower leg soft tissue at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$2,432.19
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.
$4,769.00
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.
$7.54 with first choice vs $3,521.43 with cigna — 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 | $7.54 | ↓ -100% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $10.42 | ↓ -100% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $60.08 | ↓ -98% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $171.53 | ↓ -93% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $177.53 | ↓ -93% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $177.53 | ↓ -93% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $177.53 | ↓ -93% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $177.53 | ↓ -93% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $177.53 | ↓ -93% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $181.60 | ↓ -93% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $181.60 | ↓ -93% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $181.60 | ↓ -93% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $185.08 | ↓ -92% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $297.29 | ↓ -88% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $300.19 | ↓ -88% |
| premera | commercial | $355.25 | ↓ -85% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $367.24 | ↓ -85% |
| cigna | commercial | $566.39 | ↓ -77% |
| regence | commercial | $627.48 | ↓ -74% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $630.60 | ↓ -74% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $696.44 | ↓ -71% |
| aetna | commercial | $3,004.47 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $3,521.43 | ↑ +45% |
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Biopsy lower leg soft tissue at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $1,912.53 – $6,684.56 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $1,912.53 – $6,437.49 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,252.60 | $1,840.45 – $4,683.94 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $2,526.80 | $1,183.41 – $6,673.00 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $2,213.20 | $1,970.33 – $5,046.04 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $937.05 | $1,337.58 – $7,067.38 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $648.32 | $912.96 – $1,910.83 |