Repair palate at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$8,241.60
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.
$20,604.00
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.
$2,366.35 with Molina vs $23,761.53 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 | $2,366.35 | ↓ -71% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,389.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,389.55 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,435.95 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,505.55 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6,658.74 | ↓ -19% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $6,658.74 | ↓ -19% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6,658.74 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $6,723.39 | ↓ -18% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $6,788.03 | ↓ -18% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $6,788.03 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7,111.27 | ↓ -14% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $7,654.39 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | HMO | $8,848.50 | ↑ +7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $9,966.15 | ↑ +21% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10,899.64 | ↑ +32% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $11,959.87 | ↑ +45% |
| First Choice | PPO | $14,443.40 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $14,834.88 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $14,834.88 | ↑ +80% |
| Premera | Signature | $15,495.50 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | Prime | $15,495.50 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $15,495.50 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $15,835.77 | ↑ +92% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $18,368.77 | ↑ +123% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $18,593.06 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $22,111.82 | ↑ +168% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $23,761.53 | ↑ +188% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Repair palate at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $7,989.80 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $12,641.30 | $6,596.73 – $16,788.68 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $12,334.92 | $6,855.10 – $28,375.60 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $9,344.30 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $9,620.10 | $5,189.13 – $12,203.95 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $10,409.70 | $507.57 – $17,995.47 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $13,248.90 | $4,435.00 – $17,316.41 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $3,730.48 | $6,741.52 – $18,383.51 |