Biopsy needle lymph node superficial at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$1,920.40
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.
$4,801.00
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.
$784.96 with Molina vs $6,687.99 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 | $784.96 | ↓ -59% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $792.65 | ↓ -59% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $792.65 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $808.04 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $831.13 | ↓ -57% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,783.57 | ↓ -7% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,803.64 | ↓ -6% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,857.75 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $1,857.75 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,857.75 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,875.78 | ↓ -2% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,893.82 | ↓ -1% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,893.82 | ↓ -1% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,984.00 | ↑ +3% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,322.24 | ↑ +21% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,726.12 | ↑ +42% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,040.94 | ↑ +58% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,336.73 | ↑ +74% |
| First Choice | PPO | $3,365.50 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3,408.71 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,504.73 | ↑ +83% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $4,404.85 | ↑ +129% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $4,713.87 | ↑ +145% |
| Premera | Signature | $4,713.87 | ↑ +145% |
| Premera | Prime | $4,713.87 | ↑ +145% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $4,744.29 | ↑ +147% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,124.79 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,187.36 | ↑ +170% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $6,687.99 | ↑ +248% |
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Biopsy needle lymph node superficial at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,369.50 | $1,840.45 – $4,683.94 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $2,559.20 | $1,840.45 – $4,831.18 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $1,840.45 – $2,024.49 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,420.32 | $1,912.53 – $6,684.56 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,420.32 | $1,912.53 – $6,437.49 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,420.32 | $1,917.90 – $6,684.56 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $4,122.56 | $1,912.53 – $8,029.71 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $922.60 | not published |