Eye suture during surgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$817.53
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.
$1,603.00
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.
$4.20 with first choice vs $1,183.66 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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| first choice | commercial | $4.20 | ↓ -99% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $17.46 | ↓ -98% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $26.27 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $27.48 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $75.94 | ↓ -91% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $194.01 | ↓ -76% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $196.77 | ↓ -76% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $196.77 | ↓ -76% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $196.77 | ↓ -76% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $196.77 | ↓ -76% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $196.77 | ↓ -76% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $201.40 | ↓ -75% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $201.40 | ↓ -75% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $201.40 | ↓ -75% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $209.33 | ↓ -74% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $343.97 | ↓ -58% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $377.49 | ↓ -54% |
| premera | commercial | $407.06 | ↓ -50% |
| regence | commercial | $456.50 | ↓ -44% |
| cigna | commercial | $640.61 | ↓ -22% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $666.45 | ↓ -18% |
| aetna | commercial | $1,009.89 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $1,183.66 | ↑ +45% |
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Eye suture during surgery at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $484.71 – $484.71 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $20,964.00 – $20,964.00 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | not published | $12,814.00 – $12,814.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $30,494.41 – $30,494.41 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | not published | $2,836.00 – $2,836.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | not published | $17,967.00 – $17,967.00 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | not published | $312.10 – $312.10 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | not published | $15,653.00 – $15,653.00 |