Ultrasound elastography parenchyma at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$214.40
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.
$536.00
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.
$75.57 with Molina vs $476.68 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 | $75.57 | ↓ -65% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $76.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $76.31 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $77.79 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $80.01 | ↓ -63% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $114.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $117.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $117.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $117.59 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $118.74 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $119.88 | ↓ -44% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $119.88 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $125.59 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $192.49 | ↓ -10% |
| Premera | HMO | $194.30 | ↓ -9% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $199.12 | ↓ -7% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $211.21 | ↓ -1% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $259.26 | ↑ +21% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $298.69 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $311.39 | ↑ +45% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $319.66 | ↑ +49% |
| Premera | Prime | $319.66 | ↑ +49% |
| Premera | Signature | $319.66 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $324.39 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $328.36 | ↑ +53% |
| First Choice | PPO | $375.74 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $380.56 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $391.28 | ↑ +83% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $476.68 | ↑ +122% |
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Ultrasound elastography parenchyma at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $270.20 | $116.50 – $395.24 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $116.50 – $403.49 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $711.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $357.12 | $121.06 – $526.78 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $357.12 | $121.06 – $509.96 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $357.12 | $121.40 – $526.78 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $528.00 | $107.00 – $107.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $952.00 | not published |