Microalbumin urine screen at MultiCare Allenmore Hospital
1901 South Union, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1366556227
$12.40
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.
$31.00
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.
$1.95 with Molina vs $28.91 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 |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $1.95 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1.95 | ↓ -84% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1.95 | ↓ -84% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6.11 | ↓ -51% |
| Premera | HMO | $6.23 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | Prime | $6.23 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | Signature | $6.23 | ↓ -50% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $6.27 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $6.27 | ↓ -49% |
| First Choice | PPO | $6.27 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $6.27 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6.29 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6.29 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $6.35 | ↓ -49% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $6.41 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $6.41 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | RealValue | $6.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $6.72 | ↓ -46% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $6.85 | ↓ -45% |
| Regence | Commercial | $7.16 | ↓ -42% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $7.16 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7.48 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $7.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $7.79 | ↓ -37% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $8.76 | ↓ -29% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10.29 | ↓ -17% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $12.21 | ↓ -2% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $18.25 | ↑ +47% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $18.25 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $28.91 | ↑ +133% |
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Microalbumin urine screen at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $12.40 | $1.95 – $7.16 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $23.20 | $5.00 – $5.00 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $12.40 | $1.91 – $12.21 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $12.40 | $1.95 – $12.21 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $10.00 | $2.06 – $11.29 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $12.40 | $1.91 – $12.21 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $6.23 – $6.85 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $5.61 – $29.28 |