Special radiation treatment at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$1,584.06
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.
$3,106.00
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.
$3.86 with first choice vs $2,134.20 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 | $3.86 | ↓ -100% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $11.37 | ↓ -99% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $11.78 | ↓ -99% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $149.47 | ↓ -91% |
| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $152.90 | ↓ -90% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $159.70 | ↓ -90% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $159.70 | ↓ -90% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $159.70 | ↓ -90% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $160.83 | ↓ -90% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $160.83 | ↓ -90% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $160.83 | ↓ -90% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $160.83 | ↓ -90% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $160.83 | ↓ -90% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $161.27 | ↓ -90% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $244.60 | ↓ -85% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $259.54 | ↓ -84% |
| aetna | commercial | $280.81 | ↓ -82% |
| premera | commercial | $307.14 | ↓ -81% |
| regence | commercial | $344.45 | ↓ -78% |
| cigna | commercial | $493.55 | ↓ -69% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $584.02 | ↓ -63% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $607.30 | ↓ -62% |
| cigna | local plus | $2,134.20 | ↑ +35% |
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Special radiation treatment at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,364.96 | $639.84 – $2,532.50 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,364.96 | $639.84 – $2,451.68 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,480.00 | $579.00 – $579.00 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $781.90 | $247.67 – $1,939.79 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,364.96 | $161.67 – $2,532.50 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $2,371.20 | $283.42 – $3,356.91 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,908.90 | $131.64 – $1,139.09 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,925.70 | $228.34 – $2,106.83 |