Dev tst admin phys/qhp ea addl 30 min at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$139.20
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.
$348.00
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.
$129.28 with First Choice vs $418.86 with Community Health Plan of Washington — 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 | $129.28 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $168.33 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | PPO | $243.95 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $247.08 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $254.04 | ↑ +83% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $395.59 | ↑ +184% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $399.47 | ↑ +187% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $399.47 | ↑ +187% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $407.22 | ↑ +193% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $418.86 | ↑ +201% |
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Dev tst admin phys/qhp ea addl 30 min at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $119.00 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $305.90 | $94.66 – $94.66 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $138.32 | not published |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $139.20 | $392.78 – $415.89 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $221.20 | not published |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $125.97 | $1.68 – $1,240.08 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | not published | $401.76 – $433.90 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | not published | $411.05 – $443.93 |