Brace knee extender plus 22-30in at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$294.00
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.
$735.00
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.
$119.25 with First Choice vs $2,907.56 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 | $119.25 | ↓ -59% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $155.27 | ↓ -47% |
| First Choice | PPO | $225.02 | ↓ -23% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $227.91 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $234.33 | ↓ -20% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $668.88 | ↑ +128% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $684.66 | ↑ +133% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $705.20 | ↑ +140% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $705.20 | ↑ +140% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $705.20 | ↑ +140% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $712.04 | ↑ +142% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $718.89 | ↑ +145% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $718.89 | ↑ +145% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $753.12 | ↑ +156% |
| Premera | Signature | $836.10 | ↑ +184% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $836.10 | ↑ +184% |
| Premera | Prime | $836.10 | ↑ +184% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $838.36 | ↑ +185% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $958.90 | ↑ +226% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,043.07 | ↑ +255% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,154.33 | ↑ +293% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,266.62 | ↑ +331% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,116.43 | ↑ +620% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $2,907.56 | ↑ +889% |
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Brace knee extender plus 22-30in at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $414.17 | $698.63 – $1,778.01 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $414.17 | not published |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $698.63 – $768.49 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $392.21 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $300.68 | $698.63 – $2,122.44 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $300.68 | $698.63 – $1,708.53 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $300.68 | $698.63 – $1,550.96 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $133.75 | not published |