Sleep Study (Polysomnography) at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$1,991.04
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.
$3,904.00
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.
$18.02 with first choice vs $2,882.71 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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| first choice | commercial | $18.02 | ↓ -99% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $691.99 | ↓ -65% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $725.13 | ↓ -64% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $725.13 | ↓ -64% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $725.13 | ↓ -64% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $725.13 | ↓ -64% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $725.13 | ↓ -64% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $742.57 | ↓ -63% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $742.57 | ↓ -63% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $742.57 | ↓ -63% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $746.61 | ↓ -63% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $1,135.10 | ↓ -43% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $1,141.47 | ↓ -43% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $1,163.64 | ↓ -42% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $1,180.71 | ↓ -41% |
| premera | commercial | $1,343.28 | ↓ -33% |
| regence | commercial | $1,506.45 | ↓ -24% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $1,988.08 | ↓ -0% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $2,033.43 | ↑ +2% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $2,119.20 | ↑ +6% |
| cigna | commercial | $2,284.89 | ↑ +15% |
| aetna | commercial | $2,459.52 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | local plus | $2,882.71 | ↑ +45% |
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Sleep Study (Polysomnography) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,476.48 | $994.41 – $4,272.07 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,476.48 | $994.41 – $4,135.72 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $3,572.10 | $397.15 – $1,052.63 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,476.48 | $997.20 – $4,272.07 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $4,351.90 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,409.70 | $926.45 – $1,770.32 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $3,572.10 | $956.93 – $2,783.25 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $1,822.08 | $977.94 – $3,817.59 |