Tc-99m pertechnetate per mci at MultiCare Valley Hospital
12606 East Mission Ave, Spokane Valley, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1538345251
$2.00
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.
$5.00
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.
$1.84 with First Choice vs $3.56 with First Health — 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 | $1.84 | ↓ -8% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2.39 | ↑ +20% |
| First Choice | PPO | $3.46 | ↑ +73% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3.56 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3.56 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Kaiser | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Signature | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Tc-99m pertechnetate per mci at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $64.92 | $36.87 – $36.87 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $64.92 | not published |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $24.00 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $47.01 | $33.55 – $47.93 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $32.53 | $22.90 – $47.93 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $32.40 | $38.34 – $39.94 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $2.01 | not published |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $2.00 | not published |