Administration vaccine pneumococcal at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$38.80
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.
$97.00
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.
$27.17 with Molina vs $440.49 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 | $27.17 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $29.34 | ↓ -24% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $29.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $29.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $29.34 | ↓ -24% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $53.56 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $55.16 | ↑ +42% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $55.16 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $55.70 | ↑ +44% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $56.23 | ↑ +45% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $56.23 | ↑ +45% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $58.91 | ↑ +52% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $62.65 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $72.85 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $72.85 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $76.63 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $77.22 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $77.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | HMO | $79.38 | ↑ +105% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $85.58 | ↑ +121% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $96.45 | ↑ +149% |
| Premera | Signature | $173.54 | ↑ +347% |
| Premera | Prime | $177.45 | ↑ +357% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $218.09 | ↑ +462% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $241.34 | ↑ +522% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $241.34 | ↑ +522% |
| Regence | RealValue | $248.23 | ↑ +540% |
| Regence | Commercial | $275.81 | ↑ +611% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $279.03 | ↑ +619% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $315.61 | ↑ +713% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $333.24 | ↑ +759% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $440.49 | ↑ +1035% |
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Administration vaccine pneumococcal at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $43.95 | $95.53 – $128.52 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $38.80 | $27.30 – $224.76 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $56.64 | $54.22 – $179.12 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $56.64 | $54.22 – $173.40 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $56.64 | $54.38 – $179.12 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $19.68 | $53.33 – $171.50 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $96.80 | $26.08 – $188.55 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $84.40 | $55.86 – $147.83 |