Actinotherapy uv light at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$105.60
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.
$264.00
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.
$22.82 with Molina vs $351.35 with United Healthcare — 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 | $22.82 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $24.65 | ↓ -77% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $24.65 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $24.65 | ↓ -77% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $24.65 | ↓ -77% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $42.72 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $44.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $44.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $44.43 | ↓ -58% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $44.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $44.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $46.99 | ↓ -56% |
| Premera | HMO | $63.62 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $71.90 | ↓ -32% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $81.03 | ↓ -23% |
| Premera | Signature | $146.53 | ↑ +39% |
| Premera | Prime | $149.83 | ↑ +42% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $170.52 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $184.15 | ↑ +74% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $198.26 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $198.26 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $203.75 | ↑ +93% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $203.75 | ↑ +93% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $208.56 | ↑ +98% |
| Regence | RealValue | $209.57 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $210.17 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $211.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Commercial | $232.85 | ↑ +121% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $235.56 | ↑ +123% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $267.10 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $268.52 | ↑ +154% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $351.35 | ↑ +233% |
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Actinotherapy uv light at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $75.75 | $92.40 – $182.70 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $105.60 | $22.94 – $179.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $113.28 | $43.25 – $157.12 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $113.28 | $43.25 – $152.11 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $113.28 | $43.37 – $157.12 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $379.60 | $43.25 – $208.27 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $122.50 | $35.54 – $77.00 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $193.44 | $42.54 – $140.41 |