Group mnt 2 or more 30 mins at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$23.46
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.
$46.00
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.
$0.49 with first choice vs $801.63 with confluence 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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| first choice | commercial | $0.49 | ↓ -98% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $11.05 | ↓ -53% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $13.42 | ↓ -43% |
| cigna | commercial | $15.18 | ↓ -35% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $15.79 | ↓ -33% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $15.79 | ↓ -33% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $15.79 | ↓ -33% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $15.79 | ↓ -33% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $15.79 | ↓ -33% |
| premera | commercial | $15.90 | ↓ -32% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $15.90 | ↓ -32% |
| regence | commercial | $15.90 | ↓ -32% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $16.26 | ↓ -31% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $16.47 | ↓ -30% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $16.58 | ↓ -29% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $16.60 | ↓ -29% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $17.09 | ↓ -27% |
| aetna | commercial | $25.22 | ↑ +8% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $27.74 | ↑ +18% |
| cigna | local plus | $33.97 | ↑ +45% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $35.06 | ↑ +49% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $799.11 | ↑ +3306% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $801.63 | ↑ +3317% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Group mnt 2 or more 30 mins at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $44.64 | $10.06 – $38.22 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $44.64 | $10.06 – $48.72 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $44.64 | $10.06 – $30.86 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $29.37 | $16.81 – $59.88 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $20.32 | $18.58 – $62.15 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $20.24 | $16.81 – $64.25 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $38.40 | $12.33 – $72.18 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $38.40 | $12.33 – $72.18 |