#afb mycobacteria suscep. #1 at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$14.40
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.
$36.00
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.
$5.09 with Molina vs $56.43 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 | $5.09 | ↓ -65% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $5.09 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $5.50 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $5.50 | ↓ -62% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $5.50 | ↓ -62% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $7.16 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | HMO | $7.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Premera | Signature | $7.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Premera | Prime | $7.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $7.36 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $7.36 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $7.38 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $7.38 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $7.45 | ↓ -48% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $7.52 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $7.52 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | RealValue | $7.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -42% |
| Regence | Commercial | $8.41 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -39% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $9.14 | ↓ -37% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $16.04 | ↑ +11% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $18.08 | ↑ +26% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $18.73 | ↑ +30% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $21.78 | ↑ +51% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $21.78 | ↑ +51% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $22.91 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $23.20 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $23.61 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $56.43 | ↑ +292% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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#afb mycobacteria suscep. #1 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $27.92 | $7.31 – $63.22 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $14.40 | $5.12 – $14.33 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $34.08 | $6.58 – $34.36 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $34.08 | $6.58 – $33.26 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $34.08 | $6.58 – $34.36 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $32.80 | $6.00 – $6.00 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $34.08 | $7.31 – $32.90 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $232.40 | $7.31 – $13.52 |