Culture urine each isolate at St. Michael Medical Center
1800 NW Myhre Rd, Silverdale, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1518912609
$37.78
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.
$85.59
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.
$8.09 with Kaiser vs $77.04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.09 | ↓ -79% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $8.09 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $8.09 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $8.33 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.33 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $8.49 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.66 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -77% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.14 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.16 | ↓ -63% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $16.18 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $18.61 | ↓ -51% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $18.93 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $20.55 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $25.96 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $58.21 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Sound Health | $61.63 | ↑ +63% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $62.49 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $68.48 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $68.48 | ↑ +81% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $70.19 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $70.19 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $75.32 | ↑ +99% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $77.04 | ↑ +104% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture urine each isolate at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $127.26 | $8.09 – $8.90 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $79.80 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $182.00 | $8.09 – $29.12 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $70.40 | $6.00 – $6.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $53.20 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $130.90 | $8.09 – $31.63 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $112.70 | $8.09 – $34.50 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $36.00 | $4.89 – $14.67 |