Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$1,104.80
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.
$2,762.00
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.
$784.33 with Regence vs $2,782.76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $784.33 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $784.33 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $784.33 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $791.95 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $799.56 | ↓ -28% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $799.56 | ↓ -28% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $837.64 | ↓ -24% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,026.08 | ↓ -7% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $1,058.52 | ↓ -4% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,068.90 | ↓ -3% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,068.90 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,089.66 | ↓ -1% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,105.34 | ↑ +0% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,120.79 | ↑ +1% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,283.87 | ↑ +16% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,335.98 | ↑ +21% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,408.75 | ↑ +28% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,807.50 | ↑ +64% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,807.50 | ↑ +64% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,807.50 | ↑ +64% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $1,847.21 | ↑ +67% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,936.16 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,988.64 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,988.64 | ↑ +80% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,163.65 | ↑ +96% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,190.07 | ↑ +98% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,494.88 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $2,782.76 | ↑ +152% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,091.30 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,639.20 | $807.46 – $2,615.69 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,222.90 | $777.03 – $1,977.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,639.20 | $807.46 – $2,532.21 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,639.20 | $809.73 – $2,615.69 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,160.64 | $807.46 – $3,255.70 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,094.10 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,522.50 | $605.30 – $2,526.65 |