Influenza virus vaccine, live trivalent intranasal at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$28.18
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.
$55.25
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.
$13.20 with premera vs $17.60 with coventry - first 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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| premera | commercial | $13.20 | ↓ -53% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $13.27 | ↓ -53% |
| aetna | commercial | $13.86 | ↓ -51% |
| first choice | commercial | $14.09 | ↓ -50% |
| regence | commercial | $15.40 | ↓ -45% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $15.40 | ↓ -45% |
| cigna | local plus | $16.24 | ↓ -42% |
| cigna | commercial | $16.24 | ↓ -42% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $17.60 | ↓ -38% |
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Influenza virus vaccine, live trivalent intranasal at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $18.00 | $19.71 – $39.90 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $18.00 | $19.12 – $67.89 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $86.61 – $86.61 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | not published | $33.96 – $86.61 |