Bronchoscopy w/markers at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$3,160.40
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.
$7,901.00
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.
$1,113.76 with Molina vs $27,532.51 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 | $1,113.76 | ↓ -65% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,124.68 | ↓ -64% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,124.68 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,146.51 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,179.27 | ↓ -63% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,935.22 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $3,821.71 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | PPO | $5,538.60 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $5,688.72 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $5,688.72 | ↑ +80% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $7,938.37 | ↑ +151% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $7,938.37 | ↑ +151% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $7,938.37 | ↑ +151% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $8,015.44 | ↑ +154% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $8,092.51 | ↑ +156% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $8,092.51 | ↑ +156% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $8,477.87 | ↑ +168% |
| Premera | HMO | $10,252.76 | ↑ +224% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $12,994.26 | ↑ +311% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14,258.23 | ↑ +351% |
| Premera | Signature | $18,110.10 | ↑ +473% |
| Premera | Prime | $18,110.10 | ↑ +473% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $18,110.10 | ↑ +473% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $18,507.79 | ↑ +486% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $21,898.74 | ↑ +593% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $22,166.13 | ↑ +601% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $25,875.11 | ↑ +719% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $27,532.51 | ↑ +771% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Bronchoscopy w/markers at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $3,394.00 | $1,139.22 – $33,877.43 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $3,394.00 | $1,165.56 – $33,877.43 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $8,063.10 | $25.35 – $1,171.03 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $3,394.00 | $1,225.98 – $36,513.42 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $3,394.00 | $1,139.22 – $33,877.43 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $3,394.00 | $1,160.21 – $48,661.38 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,394.00 | $1,166.02 – $33,877.43 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $7,864.44 – $8,650.88 |