Admin ecg contrast agent at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$92.00
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.
$230.00
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.
$85.45 with First Choice vs $333.30 with Community Health Plan of Washington — 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 | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $85.45 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $106.26 | ↑ +16% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $111.25 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | PPO | $161.23 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $165.60 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $165.60 | ↑ +80% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $314.78 | ↑ +242% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $317.87 | ↑ +246% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $317.87 | ↑ +246% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $324.04 | ↑ +252% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $333.30 | ↑ +262% |
| Premera | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Signature | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Kaiser | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Admin ecg contrast agent at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $148.55 | $212.04 – $302.91 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $102.78 | $144.73 – $302.91 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $102.37 | $201.94 – $252.42 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $111.47 | $201.94 – $252.42 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $118.93 | $57.22 – $302.91 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $105.63 | $201.94 – $252.42 |
| St. Clare Hospital | Lakewood | $97.02 | $201.94 – $252.42 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $111.34 – $111.34 |