Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$2,472.48
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.
$4,848.00
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.
$10.33 with aetna vs $3,579.76 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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| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $10.33 | ↓ -100% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $12.41 | ↓ -99% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $22.97 | ↓ -99% |
| first choice | commercial | $30.22 | ↓ -99% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $121.18 | ↓ -95% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $124.53 | ↓ -95% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $124.53 | ↓ -95% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $124.53 | ↓ -95% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $124.53 | ↓ -95% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $124.53 | ↓ -95% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $127.06 | ↓ -95% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $127.06 | ↓ -95% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $127.06 | ↓ -95% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $130.75 | ↓ -95% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $217.01 | ↓ -91% |
| premera | commercial | $256.81 | ↓ -90% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $336.26 | ↓ -86% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $362.45 | ↓ -85% |
| cigna | commercial | $400.14 | ↓ -84% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $552.50 | ↓ -78% |
| regence | commercial | $2,264.24 | ↓ -8% |
| aetna | commercial | $3,054.24 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $3,579.76 | ↑ +45% |
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Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $2,222.08 – $7,584.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $2,222.08 – $7,304.21 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $902.97 | $1,288.94 – $8,208.11 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $624.74 | $879.75 – $1,841.34 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $622.27 | $1,473.07 – $1,912.27 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $872.40 | $663.68 – $9,211.19 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $872.40 | $679.03 – $9,211.19 |