Comprehensive hearing test at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$226.95
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.
$445.00
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.
$1.12 with first choice vs $1,634.31 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 | $1.12 | ↓ -100% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $15.03 | ↓ -93% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $33.19 | ↓ -85% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $33.82 | ↓ -85% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $33.82 | ↓ -85% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $33.82 | ↓ -85% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $33.82 | ↓ -85% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $33.82 | ↓ -85% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $34.39 | ↓ -85% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $34.39 | ↓ -85% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $34.39 | ↓ -85% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $35.81 | ↓ -84% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $58.79 | ↓ -74% |
| premera | commercial | $69.57 | ↓ -69% |
| regence | commercial | $91.30 | ↓ -60% |
| cigna | commercial | $109.58 | ↓ -52% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $110.68 | ↓ -51% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $150.49 | ↓ -34% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $175.54 | ↓ -23% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $178.95 | ↓ -21% |
| aetna | commercial | $280.35 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $328.59 | ↑ +45% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $1,634.31 | ↑ +620% |
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Comprehensive hearing test at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $149.00 – $650.25 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $149.00 – $629.49 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $354.00 | $56.69 – $673.34 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $354.00 | $58.00 – $673.34 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $354.00 | $61.01 – $665.74 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $354.00 | $56.69 – $673.34 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $354.00 | $57.74 – $1,143.81 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $354.00 | $58.03 – $673.34 |