Electron microscopy diagnostic at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$992.46
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.
$1,946.00
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.
$622.89 with multiplan vs $3,008.66 with united healthcare — 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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| multiplan | medicare advantage | $622.89 | ↓ -37% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $756.36 | ↓ -24% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $889.84 | ↓ -10% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $889.84 | ↓ -10% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $889.84 | ↓ -10% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $889.84 | ↓ -10% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $889.84 | ↓ -10% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $916.53 | ↓ -8% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $934.33 | ↓ -6% |
| premera | commercial | $1,167.60 | ↑ +18% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $1,173.44 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | commercial | $1,225.98 | ↑ +24% |
| first choice | commercial | $1,246.41 | ↑ +26% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $1,362.20 | ↑ +37% |
| regence | commercial | $1,362.20 | ↑ +37% |
| cigna | local plus | $1,436.93 | ↑ +45% |
| cigna | commercial | $1,436.93 | ↑ +45% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $1,556.80 | ↑ +57% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $3,008.66 | ↑ +203% |
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,952.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,858.31 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,807.20 | $2,078.00 – $2,078.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $425.60 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,113.30 | $863.91 – $2,284.91 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,952.54 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $410.90 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,826.90 |