Rib gusset (elastic) each at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$52.40
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.
$131.00
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.
$48.67 with First Choice vs $429.23 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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| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $48.67 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $63.36 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | PPO | $91.83 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $93.01 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $95.63 | ↑ +83% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $98.74 | ↑ +88% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $101.07 | ↑ +93% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $104.10 | ↑ +99% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $104.10 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $104.10 | ↑ +99% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $105.11 | ↑ +101% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $106.12 | ↑ +103% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $106.12 | ↑ +103% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $111.17 | ↑ +112% |
| Premera | Signature | $123.42 | ↑ +136% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $123.42 | ↑ +136% |
| Premera | Prime | $123.42 | ↑ +136% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $123.76 | ↑ +136% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $141.55 | ↑ +170% |
| Premera | HMO | $153.98 | ↑ +194% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $170.40 | ↑ +225% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $186.97 | ↑ +257% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $312.43 | ↑ +496% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $429.23 | ↑ +719% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Rib gusset (elastic) each at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $103.13 – $113.44 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $103.13 – $262.47 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $52.40 | $98.74 – $428.27 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $52.40 | $88.87 – $172.83 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $52.40 | $86.40 – $445.59 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $52.40 | $86.40 – $445.59 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $52.40 | $88.87 – $186.97 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $52.40 | $86.40 – $445.59 |