Abdominal CT scan (with contrast) at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,231.60
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.
$3,079.00
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.
$200.61 with SCAN vs $2,004.88 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $200.61 | ↓ -84% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $206.63 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $206.63 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $208.63 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $210.64 | ↓ -83% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $210.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $220.67 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $223.31 | ↓ -82% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $241.17 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $241.17 | ↓ -80% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $241.17 | ↓ -80% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $241.17 | ↓ -80% |
| Premera | HMO | $337.83 | ↓ -73% |
| Premera | Signature | $671.32 | ↓ -45% |
| Premera | Prime | $686.42 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $703.42 | ↓ -43% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $792.75 | ↓ -36% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $843.63 | ↓ -32% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $933.46 | ↓ -24% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $933.46 | ↓ -24% |
| Regence | RealValue | $960.13 | ↓ -22% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,066.82 | ↓ -13% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,079.24 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,217.80 | ↓ -1% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,418.37 | ↑ +15% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,590.85 | ↑ +29% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,650.08 | ↑ +34% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,849.71 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,849.71 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,945.77 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,970.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,004.88 | ↑ +63% |
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Abdominal CT scan (with contrast) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $2,039.17 | $490.69 – $4,617.72 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,231.60 | $200.61 – $841.97 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,542.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,052.16 | $203.11 – $856.43 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,797.60 | $195.46 – $655.99 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,052.16 | $203.11 – $829.10 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,052.16 | $203.68 – $856.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,520.00 | $179.00 – $179.00 |