Split flat caliper stirr & p at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$54.00
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.
$135.00
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.
$50.15 with First Choice vs $449.58 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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| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $50.15 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $65.30 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | PPO | $94.64 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $97.20 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $97.20 | ↑ +80% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $103.66 | ↑ +92% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $109.29 | ↑ +102% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $109.29 | ↑ +102% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $109.29 | ↑ +102% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $110.35 | ↑ +104% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $111.41 | ↑ +106% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $111.41 | ↑ +106% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $116.72 | ↑ +116% |
| Premera | Signature | $129.58 | ↑ +140% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $129.58 | ↑ +140% |
| Premera | Prime | $129.58 | ↑ +140% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $129.92 | ↑ +141% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $148.61 | ↑ +175% |
| Premera | HMO | $161.65 | ↑ +199% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $178.89 | ↑ +231% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $196.29 | ↑ +264% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $358.79 | ↑ +564% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $449.58 | ↑ +733% |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Split flat caliper stirr & p at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $55.20 | $93.29 – $181.44 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $54.00 | $90.70 – $467.77 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $54.00 | $90.70 – $467.77 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $54.00 | $93.29 – $196.29 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $54.00 | $90.70 – $467.77 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $54.00 | $90.70 – $794.60 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $54.00 | $90.70 – $467.77 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $108.27 – $119.10 |