Xray place dist ext thor ao at Virginia Mason Medical Center
1100 9th Ave., Seattle, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1801851258
$333.03
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.
$653.00
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.
$0.41 with aetna vs $9,117.06 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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| aetna | medicare advantage ppo | $0.41 | ↓ -100% |
| first choice | commercial | $4.87 | ↓ -99% |
| confluence health | medicare advantage | $87.71 | ↓ -74% |
| united healthcare | commercial | $162.87 | ↓ -51% |
| optum care network | medicare advantage | $164.19 | ↓ -51% |
| kaiser foundation | hp medicare | $164.19 | ↓ -51% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $164.19 | ↓ -51% |
| united healthcare | medicare advantage | $164.19 | ↓ -51% |
| humana | choicecare medicare advantage | $164.19 | ↓ -51% |
| signal health | medicare advantage | $169.54 | ↓ -49% |
| multiplan | medicare advantage | $169.54 | ↓ -49% |
| premera | medicare advantage hmo/ppo | $169.54 | ↓ -49% |
| regence | medicare advantage | $175.73 | ↓ -47% |
| regence | uniform medical plan | $304.57 | ↓ -9% |
| premera | commercial | $360.43 | ↑ +8% |
| regence | commercial | $404.21 | ↑ +21% |
| kaiser health plan | commercial | $449.48 | ↑ +35% |
| coventry - first health | commercial | $522.40 | ↑ +57% |
| cigna | commercial | $537.80 | ↑ +61% |
| aetna | medicare advantage hmo | $1,247.06 | ↑ +274% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $4,997.97 | ↑ +1401% |
| cigna | local plus | $9,117.06 | ↑ +2638% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $191.36 | $613.24 – $613.24 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $535.48 – $535.48 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $1,551.76 – $1,551.76 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $1,775.72 – $1,775.72 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | not published | $435.11 – $435.11 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | not published | $824.76 – $824.76 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | not published | $282.26 – $282.26 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | not published | $719.89 – $719.89 |