Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$1,112.31
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.
$2,181.00
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.
$122.50 with cigna vs $2,550.56 with united healthcare — 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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| cigna | commercial | $122.50 | ↓ -89% |
| aetna | commercial | $169.67 | ↓ -85% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $528.05 | ↓ -53% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $641.20 | ↓ -42% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $754.35 | ↓ -32% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $754.35 | ↓ -32% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $754.35 | ↓ -32% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $754.35 | ↓ -32% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $754.35 | ↓ -32% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $776.98 | ↓ -30% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $792.07 | ↓ -29% |
| premera | commercial | $1,308.60 | ↑ +18% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $1,315.14 | ↑ +18% |
| first choice | commercial | $1,396.93 | ↑ +26% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $1,526.70 | ↑ +37% |
| regence | commercial | $1,526.70 | ↑ +37% |
| cigna | local plus | $1,610.45 | ↑ +45% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $1,744.80 | ↑ +57% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $2,550.56 | ↑ +129% |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $817.40 – $2,937.74 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $817.40 – $2,843.98 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $142.80 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,168.79 | $1,668.38 – $3,036.77 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $808.65 | $1,138.74 – $2,383.39 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $805.45 | $1,753.18 – $1,986.16 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $877.09 | $1,753.18 – $1,986.16 |