Postop app non-wgt bear dsg at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$1,000.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,500.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$249.65 with First Choice vs $2,248.02 with Kaiser — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $249.65 | ↓ -75% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $325.05 | ↓ -67% |
| First Choice | PPO | $471.07 | ↓ -53% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $477.12 | ↓ -52% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $490.56 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $517.15 | ↓ -48% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $529.35 | ↓ -47% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $545.23 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $545.23 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $545.23 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $550.52 | ↓ -45% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $555.81 | ↓ -44% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $555.81 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $582.28 | ↓ -42% |
| Premera | Signature | $646.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $646.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Premera | Prime | $646.44 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $648.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $741.38 | ↓ -26% |
| Premera | HMO | $806.46 | ↓ -19% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $892.48 | ↓ -11% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $979.29 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,636.34 | ↑ +64% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $2,248.02 | ↑ +125% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Postop app non-wgt bear dsg at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,070.80 | $540.15 – $1,374.68 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,070.80 | not published |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $540.15 – $594.17 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,020.15 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,089.96 | $540.15 – $1,640.98 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,089.96 | $540.15 – $1,320.96 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,089.96 | $540.15 – $1,199.13 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,647.83 | $540.15 – $1,021.54 |