Place po breast cath for rad at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$11,668.29
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.
$22,879.00
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.
$35.05 with aetna vs $16,893.85 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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| aetna | medicare advantage | $35.05 | ↓ -100% |
| first choice | commercial | $123.51 | ↓ -99% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $138.24 | ↓ -99% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $213.13 | ↓ -98% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $218.06 | ↓ -98% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $218.06 | ↓ -98% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $218.06 | ↓ -98% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $218.06 | ↓ -98% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $218.06 | ↓ -98% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $222.65 | ↓ -98% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $222.65 | ↓ -98% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $222.65 | ↓ -98% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $229.95 | ↓ -98% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $390.88 | ↓ -97% |
| premera | commercial | $462.56 | ↓ -96% |
| cigna | commercial | $703.74 | ↓ -94% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $1,010.34 | ↓ -91% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $1,675.56 | ↓ -86% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $2,471.55 | ↓ -79% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $8,946.00 | ↓ -23% |
| regence | commercial | $9,315.92 | ↓ -20% |
| aetna | commercial | $14,413.77 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $16,893.85 | ↑ +45% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $12,513.60 | $7,277.00 – $39,620.18 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $12,513.60 | $7,277.00 – $38,155.78 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $12,513.60 | $7,277.00 – $39,620.18 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $5,674.20 | $8,352.91 – $16,849.74 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $5,206.80 | $3,106.15 – $40,770.58 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $5,206.80 | $3,177.97 – $40,770.58 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $5,206.80 | $3,342.71 – $42,286.94 |