Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$1,886.00
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.
$4,715.00
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.
$1,072.19 with First Choice vs $7,113.59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,072.19 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $1,113.76 | ↓ -41% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,124.68 | ↓ -40% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,124.68 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,146.51 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,179.27 | ↓ -37% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,395.64 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $2,002.06 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,002.06 | ↑ +6% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,002.06 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $2,021.50 | ↑ +7% |
| First Choice | PPO | $2,022.74 | ↑ +7% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,040.94 | ↑ +8% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,040.94 | ↑ +8% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,138.13 | ↑ +13% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,649.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,277.16 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3,394.80 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,394.80 | ↑ +80% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,595.94 | ↑ +91% |
| Premera | Signature | $4,491.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Premera | Prime | $4,491.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $4,491.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $4,589.61 | ↑ +143% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,522.87 | ↑ +193% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,590.30 | ↑ +196% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $6,445.82 | ↑ +242% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $7,113.59 | ↑ +277% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $2,790.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,877.44 | $2,061.10 – $6,967.07 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,126.90 | $1,983.42 – $5,047.80 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,877.44 | $2,061.10 – $6,709.56 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,877.44 | $2,066.89 – $6,967.07 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $3,934.84 | $2,061.10 – $8,369.07 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $2,797.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,235.40 | $1,503.94 – $3,669.33 |