Counseling visit to discuss need for ldct g0296 at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$148.41
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.
$291.00
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.
$0.83 with first choice vs $1,556.42 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 | $0.83 | ↓ -99% |
| cigna | commercial | $24.70 | ↓ -83% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $26.26 | ↓ -82% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $26.26 | ↓ -82% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $26.26 | ↓ -82% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $26.26 | ↓ -82% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $26.26 | ↓ -82% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $26.34 | ↓ -82% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $27.03 | ↓ -82% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $27.03 | ↓ -82% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $27.03 | ↓ -82% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $28.42 | ↓ -81% |
| aetna | commercial | $30.76 | ↓ -79% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $47.53 | ↓ -68% |
| premera | commercial | $56.25 | ↓ -62% |
| regence | commercial | $69.72 | ↓ -53% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $103.79 | ↓ -30% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $105.80 | ↓ -29% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $125.10 | ↓ -16% |
| cigna | local plus | $214.87 | ↑ +45% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $232.80 | ↑ +57% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $1,556.42 | ↑ +949% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Counseling visit to discuss need for ldct g0296 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $117.64 – $369.14 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $117.64 – $357.36 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $200.90 | $78.98 – $209.43 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $141.60 | $114.27 – $337.53 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $219.20 | $115.61 – $487.67 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $219.20 | $116.19 – $487.67 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $219.20 | $115.29 – $525.61 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $219.20 | $115.61 – $487.67 |