Repair achilles tendon at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$4,623.60
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.
$11,559.00
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.
$2,115.25 with Molina vs $29,435.10 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 | $2,115.25 | ↓ -54% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,135.99 | ↓ -54% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,135.99 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,177.47 | ↓ -53% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,239.68 | ↓ -52% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $4,294.17 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $5,591.09 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | PPO | $8,102.86 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $8,161.93 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $8,161.93 | ↑ +77% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $8,161.93 | ↑ +77% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $8,241.17 | ↑ +78% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $8,320.41 | ↑ +80% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $8,320.41 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $8,322.48 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $8,322.48 | ↑ +80% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $8,716.62 | ↑ +89% |
| Premera | HMO | $10,961.26 | ↑ +137% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $13,360.21 | ↑ +189% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14,659.78 | ↑ +217% |
| Premera | Signature | $18,929.74 | ↑ +309% |
| Premera | Prime | $18,929.74 | ↑ +309% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $18,929.74 | ↑ +309% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $19,345.43 | ↑ +318% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $22,515.47 | ↑ +387% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $22,790.38 | ↑ +393% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $26,702.16 | ↑ +478% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $29,435.10 | ↑ +537% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Repair achilles tendon at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $12,733.70 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $14,415.10 | $8,085.92 – $20,578.67 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $6,909.76 | $8,402.62 – $34,994.41 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $15,309.70 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $8,075.20 | $6,339.19 – $14,958.96 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $7,233.80 | $1,121.61 – $22,193.03 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $15,339.80 | $5,081.00 – $21,225.54 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $7,310.68 | $5,920.00 – $28,115.17 |