Caregiver training strategies&tq 1st 30 minutes at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$60.40
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.
$151.00
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.
$39.61 with United Healthcare vs $214.84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $39.61 | ↓ -34% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $39.61 | ↓ -34% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $40.80 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $40.80 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $40.80 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $41.20 | ↓ -32% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $41.59 | ↓ -31% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $41.59 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $43.57 | ↓ -28% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $56.10 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | Prime | $66.04 | ↑ +9% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $66.04 | ↑ +9% |
| Premera | Signature | $66.04 | ↑ +9% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $66.79 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $67.73 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $67.95 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $73.04 | ↑ +21% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $73.28 | ↑ +21% |
| Premera | HMO | $83.05 | ↑ +38% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $95.27 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | PPO | $105.85 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $107.21 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $110.23 | ↑ +83% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $214.84 | ↑ +256% |
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Caregiver training strategies&tq 1st 30 minutes at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $141.75 | $40.42 – $44.46 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $231.70 | $40.42 – $102.87 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | not published | $40.42 – $106.10 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $203.70 | $40.42 – $74.78 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $92.56 | $36.38 – $93.77 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $105.56 | $32.34 – $131.97 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $60.40 | $39.61 – $214.36 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $78.40 | $40.40 – $81.89 |