Insert drug delivery implant at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$172.89
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.
$339.00
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.
$3.05 with first choice vs $609.55 with aetna — 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 | $3.05 | ↓ -98% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $63.89 | ↓ -63% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $65.56 | ↓ -62% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $65.56 | ↓ -62% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $65.56 | ↓ -62% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $65.56 | ↓ -62% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $65.56 | ↓ -62% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $66.66 | ↓ -61% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $66.66 | ↓ -61% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $66.66 | ↓ -61% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $68.93 | ↓ -60% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $116.32 | ↓ -33% |
| premera | commercial | $137.66 | ↓ -20% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $144.62 | ↓ -16% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $147.43 | ↓ -15% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $204.42 | ↑ +18% |
| cigna | commercial | $210.95 | ↑ +22% |
| aetna | commercial | $213.57 | ↑ +24% |
| regence | commercial | $237.30 | ↑ +37% |
| cigna | local plus | $250.32 | ↑ +45% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $271.20 | ↑ +57% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $509.11 | ↑ +194% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $609.55 | ↑ +253% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $949.92 | $154.07 – $512.44 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $949.92 | $154.07 – $496.09 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $259.00 | $148.26 – $392.51 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $949.92 | $154.50 – $512.44 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $1,425.60 | $110.92 – $516.69 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $66.00 | $158.72 – $397.56 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $141.25 | $201.62 – $547.23 |