Radiation treatment delivery at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$683.91
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.
$1,341.00
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.
$5.28 with confluence health vs $970.22 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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| confluence health | medicare advantage | $5.28 | ↓ -99% |
| first choice | commercial | $7.61 | ↓ -99% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $200.52 | ↓ -71% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $243.49 | ↓ -64% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $263.77 | ↓ -61% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $263.77 | ↓ -61% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $263.77 | ↓ -61% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $263.77 | ↓ -61% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $263.77 | ↓ -61% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $274.99 | ↓ -60% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $279.56 | ↓ -59% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $279.56 | ↓ -59% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $295.05 | ↓ -57% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $300.78 | ↓ -56% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $400.05 | ↓ -42% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $440.91 | ↓ -36% |
| premera | commercial | $521.77 | ↓ -24% |
| regence | commercial | $585.15 | ↓ -14% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $600.57 | ↓ -12% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $778.80 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | commercial | $844.83 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | commercial | $853.78 | ↑ +25% |
| cigna | local plus | $970.22 | ↑ +42% |
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Radiation treatment delivery at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $911.04 | $639.84 – $1,943.83 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $911.04 | $639.84 – $1,497.22 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $960.00 | $263.00 – $263.00 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $394.10 | $539.84 – $1,567.01 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $911.04 | $594.29 – $1,424.43 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $863.20 | $639.84 – $1,472.52 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $897.40 | $238.14 – $1,139.09 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $820.40 | $408.48 – $1,139.09 |