Design mlc device for imrt at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$648.00
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.
$1,620.00
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.
$129.92 with Molina vs $1,596.30 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 | $129.92 | ↓ -80% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $131.19 | ↓ -80% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $131.19 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $133.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $137.56 | ↓ -79% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $421.17 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $421.17 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $421.17 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $425.26 | ↓ -34% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $429.34 | ↓ -34% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $429.34 | ↓ -34% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $449.79 | ↓ -31% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $601.83 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | HMO | $634.07 | ↓ -2% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $689.40 | ↑ +6% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $756.46 | ↑ +17% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $783.59 | ↑ +21% |
| Premera | Signature | $977.69 | ↑ +51% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $977.69 | ↑ +51% |
| Premera | Prime | $977.69 | ↑ +51% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $999.15 | ↑ +54% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,135.62 | ↑ +75% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,161.81 | ↑ +79% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,166.40 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,166.40 | ↑ +80% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,176.00 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,368.33 | ↑ +111% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,596.30 | ↑ +146% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Design mlc device for imrt at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,476.48 | $433.59 – $1,575.25 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,513.40 | $417.24 – $1,206.58 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,476.48 | $433.59 – $1,524.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,476.48 | $434.80 – $1,575.25 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $4,640.00 | $367.00 – $367.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,466.92 | $433.59 – $2,088.05 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $7,305.90 | $327.41 – $771.90 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,869.00 | $417.24 – $1,310.48 |