Bundle his recording at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$10,897.20
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.
$27,243.00
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.
$4,203.69 with Molina vs $29,960.74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $4,203.69 | ↓ -61% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $4,244.90 | ↓ -61% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4,244.90 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4,327.33 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4,450.97 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $8,773.21 | ↓ -19% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $8,773.21 | ↓ -19% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $8,773.21 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $8,858.39 | ↓ -19% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $8,943.57 | ↓ -18% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $8,943.57 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $9,369.45 | ↓ -14% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $10,120.77 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | HMO | $11,900.80 | ↑ +9% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $13,177.44 | ↑ +21% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $14,360.81 | ↑ +32% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $15,757.71 | ↑ +45% |
| First Choice | PPO | $19,097.34 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $19,614.96 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $19,614.96 | ↑ +80% |
| Premera | Signature | $19,760.91 | ↑ +81% |
| Premera | Prime | $19,760.91 | ↑ +81% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $19,760.91 | ↑ +81% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $20,194.84 | ↑ +85% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $24,201.74 | ↑ +122% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $24,497.24 | ↑ +125% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $28,363.16 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $29,960.74 | ↑ +175% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Bundle his recording at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $16,884.00 | $9,031.93 – $28,663.41 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,454.70 | $8,691.51 – $22,119.90 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $16,884.00 | $9,031.93 – $27,603.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $16,884.00 | $9,057.27 – $28,663.41 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $16,303.20 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $4,812.50 | $330.46 – $21,835.98 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $5,514.60 | $8,882.28 – $22,306.84 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $951.60 | $9,304.89 – $23,243.72 |