Bowel imaging at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$1,250.40
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.
$3,126.00
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.
$260.30 with Molina vs $2,250.72 with First Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $260.30 | ↓ -79% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $262.85 | ↓ -79% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $262.85 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $267.96 | ↓ -79% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $275.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $449.67 | ↓ -64% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $449.67 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $449.67 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $454.04 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $458.40 | ↓ -63% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $458.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $480.23 | ↓ -62% |
| Premera | HMO | $687.04 | ↓ -45% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $736.06 | ↓ -41% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $807.66 | ↓ -35% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,091.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,091.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,091.34 | ↓ -13% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $1,115.29 | ↓ -11% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,161.31 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,240.47 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,255.61 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,501.98 | ↑ +20% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,512.05 | ↑ +21% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,729.63 | ↑ +38% |
| First Choice | PPO | $2,191.33 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,250.72 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,250.72 | ↑ +80% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Bowel imaging at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,200.00 | $462.93 – $1,730.21 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,756.60 | $445.48 – $1,325.27 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,200.00 | $462.93 – $1,674.99 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,200.00 | $464.23 – $1,730.21 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $777.70 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $923.30 | $365.46 – $824.14 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $977.90 | $445.48 – $1,439.39 |