Cryopreserve stem cells at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$855.60
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.
$2,139.00
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.
$496.24 with Regence vs $1,814.49 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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| Regence | MedAdvantage | $496.24 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $496.24 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $496.24 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $501.06 | ↓ -41% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $505.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $505.88 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $529.97 | ↓ -38% |
| Premera | HMO | $720.74 | ↓ -16% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $794.64 | ↓ -7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $812.29 | ↓ -5% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $891.31 | ↑ +4% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,034.63 | ↑ +21% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,148.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,148.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,148.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $1,160.81 | ↑ +36% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,172.19 | ↑ +37% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,172.19 | ↑ +37% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $1,173.87 | ↑ +37% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,194.95 | ↑ +40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,229.10 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,368.93 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,385.65 | ↑ +62% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,499.44 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,540.08 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,540.08 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,634.10 | ↑ +91% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,814.49 | ↑ +112% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Cryopreserve stem cells at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,738.08 | $510.88 – $1,823.79 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,155.00 | $491.62 – $1,396.94 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,738.08 | $510.88 – $1,765.58 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,738.08 | $512.31 – $1,823.79 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $2,457.13 | $1,921.73 – $4,772.00 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,700.02 | $1,319.29 – $4,772.00 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $1,693.30 | $1,109.45 – $3,976.67 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,133.60 | $502.06 – $2,117.74 |