Pulse ox single at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$43.86
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.
$86.00
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.
$0.07 with first choice vs $1,631.54 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 | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $2.61 | ↓ -94% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $2.81 | ↓ -94% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $3.13 | ↓ -93% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $3.13 | ↓ -93% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $3.13 | ↓ -93% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $4.22 | ↓ -90% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $4.22 | ↓ -90% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $4.22 | ↓ -90% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $4.22 | ↓ -90% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $4.22 | ↓ -90% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $4.38 | ↓ -90% |
| premera | commercial | $5.18 | ↓ -88% |
| regence | commercial | $5.81 | ↓ -87% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $6.86 | ↓ -84% |
| cigna | commercial | $8.61 | ↓ -80% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $8.89 | ↓ -80% |
| aetna | commercial | $54.18 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $63.50 | ↑ +45% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $104.23 | ↑ +138% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $538.78 | ↑ +1128% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $593.36 | ↑ +1253% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $1,631.54 | ↑ +3620% |
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Pulse ox single at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $24.40 | not published |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $14.40 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $67.13 | $95.83 – $136.89 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $46.45 | $65.41 – $136.89 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $46.27 | $109.52 – $114.08 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $38.40 | not published |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $38.40 | not published |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $50.38 | $109.52 – $114.08 |