Clearance of airways at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$505.20
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.
$1,263.00
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.
$35.56 with Molina vs $921.99 with Multiplan/PHCS — 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 | $35.56 | ↓ -93% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $35.91 | ↓ -93% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $35.91 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $36.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $37.65 | ↓ -93% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $239.14 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $246.31 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $246.31 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $246.31 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $248.70 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $251.09 | ↓ -50% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $251.09 | ↓ -50% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $263.05 | ↓ -48% |
| Premera | HMO | $348.13 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $403.18 | ↓ -20% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $442.40 | ↓ -12% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $469.20 | ↓ -7% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $579.48 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $595.57 | ↑ +18% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $610.91 | ↑ +21% |
| Premera | Signature | $620.15 | ↑ +23% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $620.15 | ↑ +23% |
| Premera | Prime | $620.15 | ↑ +23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $679.47 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $687.76 | ↑ +36% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $854.09 | ↑ +69% |
| First Choice | PPO | $885.36 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $896.73 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $921.99 | ↑ +83% |
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Clearance of airways at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $200.34 | $244.02 – $268.42 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $453.60 | $244.02 – $662.26 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $475.30 | $244.02 – $3,379.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $287.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $576.96 | $253.57 – $864.61 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $576.96 | $253.57 – $837.02 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $576.96 | $254.28 – $864.61 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $442.52 | $253.57 – $1,146.07 |