Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$1,398.00
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.
$3,495.00
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.
$495.85 with Molina vs $6,620.93 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 | $495.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $500.71 | ↓ -64% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $500.71 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $510.44 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $525.02 | ↓ -62% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $794.76 | ↓ -43% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,034.52 | ↓ -26% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,499.36 | ↑ +7% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $1,770.64 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,770.64 | ↑ +27% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,770.64 | ↑ +27% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,787.83 | ↑ +28% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,805.02 | ↑ +29% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,805.02 | ↑ +29% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,890.97 | ↑ +35% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,465.56 | ↑ +76% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,516.40 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,516.40 | ↑ +80% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,898.35 | ↑ +107% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,180.27 | ↑ +127% |
| Premera | Signature | $4,237.70 | ↑ +203% |
| Premera | Prime | $4,237.70 | ↑ +203% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $4,237.70 | ↑ +203% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $4,330.74 | ↑ +210% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4,884.46 | ↑ +249% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,944.10 | ↑ +254% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $5,806.52 | ↑ +315% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $6,620.93 | ↑ +374% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $2,226.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,231.36 | $1,822.85 – $5,537.83 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,844.10 | $1,754.15 – $4,464.31 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,231.36 | $1,822.85 – $4,265.48 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,231.36 | $1,827.97 – $4,058.09 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $3,600.00 | not published |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,873.56 | $1,822.85 – $3,688.48 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $2,604.00 | not published |