Hematopoietic nuclear tx at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$642.09
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.
$1,259.00
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.
$5.43 with first choice vs $826.88 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 | $5.43 | ↓ -99% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $7.72 | ↓ -99% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $170.90 | ↓ -73% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $187.55 | ↓ -71% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $187.55 | ↓ -71% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $187.55 | ↓ -71% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $187.55 | ↓ -71% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $187.55 | ↓ -71% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $207.52 | ↓ -68% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $218.55 | ↓ -66% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $239.91 | ↓ -63% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $239.91 | ↓ -63% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $251.46 | ↓ -61% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $256.34 | ↓ -60% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $372.11 | ↓ -42% |
| premera | commercial | $440.36 | ↓ -31% |
| regence | commercial | $493.85 | ↓ -23% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $539.04 | ↓ -16% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $569.78 | ↓ -11% |
| cigna | commercial | $721.64 | ↑ +12% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $739.70 | ↑ +15% |
| aetna | commercial | $793.17 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $826.88 | ↑ +29% |
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Hematopoietic nuclear tx at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $961.44 | $270.20 – $1,115.78 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $961.44 | $270.20 – $1,080.17 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $768.00 | $225.00 – $225.00 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,594.60 | $260.02 – $854.64 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $961.44 | $270.96 – $1,115.78 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,444.10 | $220.45 – $481.03 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $884.10 | $260.02 – $928.23 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,458.80 | $260.02 – $852.06 |