Crystal identification light microscopy at MultiCare Allenmore Hospital
1901 South Union, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1366556227
$17.60
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.
$44.00
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.
$6.82 with Molina vs $34.01 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 | $6.82 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $6.82 | ↓ -61% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $6.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $6.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $6.82 | ↓ -61% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $7.18 | ↓ -59% |
| Premera | HMO | $7.33 | ↓ -58% |
| Premera | Prime | $7.33 | ↓ -58% |
| Premera | Signature | $7.33 | ↓ -58% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $7.38 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $7.38 | ↓ -58% |
| First Choice | PPO | $7.38 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $7.38 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $7.40 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $7.40 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $7.47 | ↓ -58% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $7.54 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $7.54 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | RealValue | $7.59 | ↓ -57% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $8.06 | ↓ -54% |
| Regence | Commercial | $8.43 | ↓ -52% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $8.43 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $8.80 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $8.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $9.16 | ↓ -48% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $10.31 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $12.11 | ↓ -31% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14.37 | ↓ -18% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $25.55 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $25.55 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $34.01 | ↑ +93% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $39.63 | $7.33 – $89.73 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $17.60 | $6.79 – $24.09 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $101.43 | $7.33 – $8.06 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $62.30 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $39.36 | $6.60 – $34.45 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $239.40 | $7.33 – $26.39 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $39.36 | $6.60 – $33.35 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $39.36 | $6.60 – $34.45 |