#creutz-prot.,western blot at MultiCare Allenmore Hospital
1901 South Union, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1366556227
$56.40
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.
$141.00
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.
$7.41 with Molina vs $135.53 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $7.41 | ↓ -87% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $7.41 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $7.41 | ↓ -87% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $7.41 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $7.41 | ↓ -87% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $28.63 | ↓ -49% |
| Premera | Signature | $29.21 | ↓ -48% |
| Premera | HMO | $29.21 | ↓ -48% |
| Premera | Prime | $29.21 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $29.39 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $29.39 | ↓ -48% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $29.41 | ↓ -48% |
| First Choice | PPO | $29.41 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $29.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $29.48 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $29.77 | ↓ -47% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $30.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $30.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Regence | RealValue | $30.23 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $31.49 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $32.13 | ↓ -43% |
| Regence | Commercial | $33.59 | ↓ -40% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $33.59 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $35.05 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $35.05 | ↓ -38% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $36.51 | ↓ -35% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $41.07 | ↓ -27% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $48.26 | ↓ -14% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $57.25 | ↑ +2% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $82.49 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $82.49 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $135.53 | ↑ +140% |
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#creutz-prot.,western blot at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $52.33 | $29.21 – $118.50 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $56.40 | $7.37 – $33.59 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $58.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $130.08 | $26.29 – $137.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $61.60 | $29.21 – $105.16 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $130.08 | $26.29 – $132.91 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $130.08 | $26.29 – $137.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $127.20 | $22.00 – $22.00 |