Photopheresis at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$6,440.00
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.
$16,100.00
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.
$2,837.77 with Molina vs $18,512.00 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 | $2,837.77 | ↓ -56% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,865.59 | ↓ -56% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,865.59 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,921.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3,004.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4,899.15 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $4,899.15 | ↓ -24% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4,899.15 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $4,946.72 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4,994.28 | ↓ -22% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4,994.28 | ↓ -22% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $5,232.10 | ↓ -19% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5,981.15 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | HMO | $7,353.22 | ↑ +14% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $7,787.57 | ↑ +21% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $8,019.39 | ↑ +25% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $8,799.45 | ↑ +37% |
| First Choice | PPO | $11,286.10 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $11,592.00 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $11,592.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Premera | Signature | $12,245.25 | ↑ +90% |
| Premera | Prime | $12,245.25 | ↑ +90% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $12,245.25 | ↑ +90% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $12,514.15 | ↑ +94% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $13,514.79 | ↑ +110% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $13,679.81 | ↑ +112% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $17,512.45 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $18,512.00 | ↑ +187% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Photopheresis at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $10,571.04 | $5,043.63 – $17,946.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $9,425.50 | $4,853.53 – $13,746.10 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $10,571.04 | $5,043.63 – $17,373.54 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $10,571.04 | $5,057.78 – $17,946.29 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $7,244.55 | $11.89 – $3,653.89 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | not published | not published |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $5,043.63 – $23,788.38 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | not published | $2,225.00 – $17,182.62 |