Artery x-rays lung at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$2,380.80
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.
$5,952.00
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.
$1,238.74 with Molina vs $13,256.42 with Kaiser — 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $1,238.74 | ↓ -48% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,250.88 | ↓ -47% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,250.88 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,275.17 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,311.60 | ↓ -45% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,211.17 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,878.98 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $3,551.60 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $3,551.60 | ↑ +49% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $3,551.60 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $3,586.08 | ↑ +51% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $3,620.56 | ↑ +52% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $3,620.56 | ↑ +52% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $3,792.97 | ↑ +59% |
| First Choice | PPO | $4,172.35 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $4,285.44 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $4,285.44 | ↑ +80% |
| Premera | HMO | $4,936.54 | ↑ +107% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $5,813.58 | ↑ +144% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $6,379.08 | ↑ +168% |
| Premera | Signature | $8,434.14 | ↑ +254% |
| Premera | Prime | $8,434.14 | ↑ +254% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8,434.14 | ↑ +254% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $8,619.34 | ↑ +262% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $9,797.42 | ↑ +312% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $9,917.04 | ↑ +317% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $11,764.86 | ↑ +394% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $13,256.42 | ↑ +457% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Artery x-rays lung at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,654.80 | $936.03 – $8,954.64 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $10,880.00 | $3,148.00 – $3,148.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $8,270.50 | $497.50 – $6,509.26 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $2,286.90 | $228.91 – $6,509.26 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $3,838.80 | $434.24 – $10,916.90 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $4,772.04 | $369.91 – $11,578.53 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $1,320.40 | $2,706.37 – $9,920.64 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,591.60 | $1,267.06 – $15,156.63 |