Penile vascular study at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$384.54
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.
$754.00
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.
$2.14 with first choice vs $1,077.10 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 | $2.14 | ↓ -99% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $78.96 | ↓ -79% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $80.27 | ↓ -79% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $80.27 | ↓ -79% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $80.27 | ↓ -79% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $80.27 | ↓ -79% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $80.27 | ↓ -79% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $81.09 | ↓ -79% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $83.01 | ↓ -78% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $83.01 | ↓ -78% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $85.20 | ↓ -78% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $119.31 | ↓ -69% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $121.63 | ↓ -68% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $131.33 | ↓ -66% |
| premera | commercial | $155.42 | ↓ -60% |
| regence | commercial | $174.30 | ↓ -55% |
| cigna | commercial | $260.73 | ↓ -32% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $263.93 | ↓ -31% |
| aetna | commercial | $298.75 | ↓ -22% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $328.88 | ↓ -14% |
| cigna | local plus | $392.34 | ↑ +2% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $798.33 | ↑ +108% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $1,077.10 | ↑ +180% |
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Penile vascular study at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $240.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $121.06 – $526.78 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $121.06 – $509.96 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,492.40 | $116.50 – $403.49 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $473.90 | $116.50 – $376.53 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $304.80 | $435.08 – $621.54 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $210.88 | $234.44 – $836.71 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $210.05 | $234.44 – $788.04 |