Exchange drainage catheter at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$1,356.00
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.
$3,390.00
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.
$501.33 with Molina vs $7,750.08 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 | $501.33 | ↓ -63% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $506.24 | ↓ -63% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $506.24 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $516.07 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $530.82 | ↓ -61% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,259.39 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,639.74 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $2,158.42 | ↑ +59% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,158.42 | ↑ +59% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,158.42 | ↑ +59% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $2,179.38 | ↑ +61% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,200.34 | ↑ +62% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,200.34 | ↑ +62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,305.11 | ↑ +70% |
| First Choice | PPO | $2,376.39 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,440.80 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,440.80 | ↑ +80% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,886.03 | ↑ +113% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,533.11 | ↑ +161% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,876.78 | ↑ +186% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,034.89 | ↑ +271% |
| Premera | Prime | $5,034.89 | ↑ +271% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $5,034.89 | ↑ +271% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $5,145.45 | ↑ +279% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,954.21 | ↑ +339% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6,026.91 | ↑ +344% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $7,090.66 | ↑ +423% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $7,750.08 | ↑ +472% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Exchange drainage catheter at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $3,352.30 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,673.28 | $2,222.08 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,700.90 | $2,138.32 – $5,442.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,673.28 | $2,222.08 – $7,304.21 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,673.28 | $2,228.31 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $3,397.16 | $2,222.08 – $9,110.79 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $4,030.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,712.50 | $1,686.08 – $3,955.90 |