Caregiver training strategies&tq ea addl 15 min at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$30.00
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.
$75.00
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.
$21.01 with United Healthcare vs $115.56 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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| United Healthcare | Commercial | $21.01 | ↓ -30% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $21.01 | ↓ -30% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $21.64 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $21.64 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $21.64 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $21.85 | ↓ -27% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $22.06 | ↓ -26% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $22.06 | ↓ -26% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $23.11 | ↓ -23% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $27.86 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | Prime | $32.80 | ↑ +9% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $32.80 | ↑ +9% |
| Premera | Signature | $32.80 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $33.75 | ↑ +13% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $35.42 | ↑ +18% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $36.28 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $36.39 | ↑ +21% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $38.87 | ↑ +30% |
| Premera | HMO | $41.25 | ↑ +38% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $47.34 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | PPO | $52.58 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $53.25 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $54.75 | ↑ +83% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $115.56 | ↑ +285% |
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Caregiver training strategies&tq ea addl 15 min at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $116.20 | $22.63 – $57.59 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $22.63 – $24.89 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | not published | $22.63 – $59.40 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $102.20 | $22.63 – $41.87 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $45.76 | $20.37 – $52.50 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $52.00 | $18.10 – $73.89 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $30.00 | $21.01 – $115.30 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $34.40 | $21.43 – $40.67 |