Battery elec/combo vad, rep at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$1,320.00
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.
$3,300.00
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.
$1,225.95 with First Choice vs $7,498.91 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 | $1,225.95 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,596.21 | ↑ +21% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $1,725.09 | ↑ +31% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,765.78 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $1,818.76 | ↑ +38% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,818.76 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,818.76 | ↑ +38% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,836.41 | ↑ +39% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,854.07 | ↑ +40% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,854.07 | ↑ +40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,942.36 | ↑ +47% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,156.36 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,156.36 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,156.36 | ↑ +63% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,162.18 | ↑ +64% |
| First Choice | PPO | $2,313.30 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,343.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,409.00 | ↑ +83% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,473.09 | ↑ +87% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,690.19 | ↑ +104% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,977.11 | ↑ +126% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,266.70 | ↑ +147% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $5,458.45 | ↑ +314% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $7,498.91 | ↑ +468% |
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Battery elec/combo vad, rep at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $1,801.82 – $1,982.00 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $1,801.82 – $4,585.63 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $1,320.00 | $1,725.09 – $7,482.10 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,320.00 | $1,509.45 – $7,784.74 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,320.00 | $1,509.45 – $7,784.74 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,320.00 | $1,552.58 – $3,266.70 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,320.00 | $1,509.45 – $7,784.74 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,320.00 | $1,509.45 – $13,223.98 |