Place right device/marker pros at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$2,578.80
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.
$6,447.00
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.
$1,187.75 with Molina vs $5,965.98 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 | $1,187.75 | ↓ -54% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,199.40 | ↓ -53% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,199.40 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,222.69 | ↓ -53% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,257.62 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,556.90 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $1,556.90 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,556.90 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,572.01 | ↓ -39% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,587.13 | ↓ -38% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,587.13 | ↓ -38% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,662.71 | ↓ -36% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,369.77 | ↓ -8% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,395.06 | ↓ -7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,548.47 | ↓ -1% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,796.37 | ↑ +8% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $3,118.41 | ↑ +21% |
| Premera | Signature | $3,666.38 | ↑ +42% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,666.38 | ↑ +42% |
| Premera | Prime | $3,666.38 | ↑ +42% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $3,746.89 | ↑ +45% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4,294.84 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,347.28 | ↑ +69% |
| First Choice | PPO | $4,519.35 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $4,641.84 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $4,641.84 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $5,114.36 | ↑ +98% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $5,965.98 | ↑ +131% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,750.24 | $1,602.81 – $5,853.10 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,317.30 | $1,542.40 – $4,483.22 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,750.24 | $1,602.81 – $5,666.30 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,750.24 | $1,607.31 – $5,853.10 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,603.30 | $1,227.80 – $2,853.44 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $1,603.20 | $1,651.25 – $4,312.57 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $3,064.00 | $1,214.91 – $6,644.13 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $3,064.00 | $1,243.00 – $6,644.13 |