Epinephrine 0.1 mg/ml injection syringe at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$2.14
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.
$4.19
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.
$2.51 with premera vs $3.35 with coventry - first 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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| premera | commercial | $2.51 | ↑ +17% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $2.53 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | commercial | $2.64 | ↑ +23% |
| first choice | commercial | $2.68 | ↑ +25% |
| regence | commercial | $2.93 | ↑ +37% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $2.93 | ↑ +37% |
| cigna | local plus | $3.09 | ↑ +44% |
| cigna | commercial | $3.09 | ↑ +44% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $3.35 | ↑ +57% |
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Epinephrine 0.1 mg/ml injection syringe at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | $2.18 – $2.18 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $18.20 | not published |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $31.70 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $42.02 | $59.98 – $85.68 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $29.07 | $40.94 – $85.68 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $28.96 | $47.60 – $71.40 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $31.70 | not published |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $16.70 | not published |