Gated heart multiple at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$865.98
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.
$1,698.00
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.
$8.49 with first choice vs $1,253.80 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 | $8.49 | ↓ -99% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $11.25 | ↓ -99% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $301.09 | ↓ -65% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $301.09 | ↓ -65% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $301.09 | ↓ -65% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $301.09 | ↓ -65% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $301.09 | ↓ -65% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $306.39 | ↓ -65% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $306.46 | ↓ -65% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $316.63 | ↓ -63% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $316.63 | ↓ -63% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $330.65 | ↓ -62% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $361.57 | ↓ -58% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $381.71 | ↓ -56% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $459.59 | ↓ -47% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $505.32 | ↓ -42% |
| premera | commercial | $598.00 | ↓ -31% |
| regence | commercial | $670.64 | ↓ -23% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $921.78 | ↑ +6% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $994.33 | ↑ +15% |
| cigna | commercial | $1,011.90 | ↑ +17% |
| aetna | commercial | $1,069.74 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $1,253.80 | ↑ +45% |
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Gated heart multiple at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,995.84 | $462.93 – $1,730.21 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,995.84 | $462.93 – $1,674.99 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,995.84 | $464.23 – $1,730.21 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,298.10 | $365.46 – $824.14 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $2,024.78 | $1,522.80 – $4,128.94 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,400.89 | $780.44 – $4,128.94 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $1,395.35 | $780.44 – $3,440.79 |