Nerve teasing preparations at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$970.00
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.
$2,425.00
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.
$27.61 with Molina vs $3,463.23 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $27.61 | ↓ -97% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $27.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $27.88 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $28.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $29.23 | ↓ -97% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $879.85 | ↓ -9% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $900.89 | ↓ -7% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $906.24 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $906.24 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $906.24 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $915.04 | ↓ -6% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $923.84 | ↓ -5% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $923.84 | ↓ -5% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $967.83 | ↓ -0% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,172.97 | ↑ +21% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,411.67 | ↑ +46% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,483.42 | ↑ +53% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,627.72 | ↑ +68% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,699.93 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,721.75 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,770.25 | ↑ +83% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $2,336.21 | ↑ +141% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,392.02 | ↑ +147% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,499.95 | ↑ +158% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,500.11 | ↑ +158% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,500.11 | ↑ +158% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,500.11 | ↑ +158% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,530.48 | ↑ +161% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $3,463.23 | ↑ +257% |
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Nerve teasing preparations at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $367.91 – $987.58 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $256.38 – $2,284.91 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | not published | $256.38 – $2,356.74 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,048.00 | $2,020.00 – $2,020.00 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $970.00 | $27.41 – $3,455.47 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,888.40 | $28.04 – $3,867.44 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,888.40 | $28.69 – $3,867.44 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $813.45 | $2,300.02 – $2,300.02 |