Brain image w/flow 4 + views at St. Michael Medical Center
1800 NW Myhre Rd, Silverdale, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1518912609
$1,180.72
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.
$2,675.25
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.
$627.31 with Kaiser vs $2,407.73 with MultiPlan — 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $627.31 | ↓ -47% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $627.31 | ↓ -47% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $633.58 | ↓ -46% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $639.81 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $646.13 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $646.13 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $646.13 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $671.22 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $677.49 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $677.49 | ↓ -43% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,254.62 | ↑ +6% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,442.81 | ↑ +22% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,467.91 | ↑ +24% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,494.71 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,685.41 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,718.47 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,819.17 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Sound Health | $1,926.18 | ↑ +63% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,952.94 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $2,122.64 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,140.20 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $2,140.20 | ↑ +81% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,193.71 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,193.71 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,345.53 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,354.22 | ↑ +99% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,377.71 | ↑ +101% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,407.73 | ↑ +104% |
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Brain image w/flow 4 + views at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,547.04 | $628.75 – $2,218.31 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,948.70 | $605.06 – $1,699.13 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,547.04 | $628.75 – $2,147.51 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,547.04 | $630.52 – $2,218.31 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,848.00 | $539.00 – $539.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,086.40 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,905.40 | $478.94 – $1,119.35 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,414.70 | $532.41 – $1,845.44 |