Waist belt at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital
800 West Fifth Avenue, Spokane, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1356528269
$50.00
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.
$125.00
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.
$46.44 with First Choice vs $417.63 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 | $46.44 | ↓ -7% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $60.46 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | PPO | $87.63 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $88.75 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $91.25 | ↑ +83% |
| Regence/Asuris | Commercial | $96.08 | ↑ +92% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $98.34 | ↑ +97% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $101.29 | ↑ +103% |
| Blue Cross of Idaho | MedAdvantage | $101.29 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $101.29 | ↑ +103% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $102.28 | ↑ +105% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $103.26 | ↑ +107% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $103.26 | ↑ +107% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $108.18 | ↑ +116% |
| Premera | Signature | $120.10 | ↑ +140% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $120.10 | ↑ +140% |
| Premera | Prime | $120.10 | ↑ +140% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $120.42 | ↑ +141% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $137.73 | ↑ +175% |
| Premera | HMO | $149.82 | ↑ +200% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $165.81 | ↑ +232% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $181.93 | ↑ +264% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $303.99 | ↑ +508% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $417.63 | ↑ +735% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Waist belt at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $100.35 – $110.38 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $100.35 – $255.39 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $50.00 | $96.08 – $416.70 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $51.20 | $86.47 – $168.17 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $50.00 | $84.07 – $433.55 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $50.00 | $84.07 – $433.55 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $50.00 | $86.47 – $181.93 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $50.00 | $84.07 – $433.55 |