Psycl/nrpsyc tech 1st at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$122.40
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.
$240.00
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.
$1.07 with first choice vs $456.40 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 | $1.07 | ↓ -99% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $39.31 | ↓ -68% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $40.92 | ↓ -67% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $40.92 | ↓ -67% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $40.92 | ↓ -67% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $40.92 | ↓ -67% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $40.92 | ↓ -67% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $41.71 | ↓ -66% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $41.71 | ↓ -66% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $41.71 | ↓ -66% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $42.41 | ↓ -65% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $63.17 | ↓ -48% |
| premera | commercial | $74.75 | ↓ -39% |
| regence | commercial | $83.83 | ↓ -32% |
| cigna | commercial | $129.78 | ↑ +6% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $144.72 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | commercial | $151.20 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $177.22 | ↑ +45% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $192.00 | ↑ +57% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $375.33 | ↑ +207% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $447.71 | ↑ +266% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $456.40 | ↑ +273% |
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Psycl/nrpsyc tech 1st at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $108.05 – $1,571.56 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $104.60 – $1,210.49 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $429.00 | $96.56 – $1,180.26 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $82.76 – $1,266.91 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | not published | $108.05 – $1,151.63 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $143.23 – $957.01 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | not published | $103.46 – $1,292.18 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | not published | $353.06 – $920.94 |