Afo molded ankle gauntlet at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$275.60
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.
$689.00
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.
$445.03 with First Choice vs $3,965.85 with Kaiser — 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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| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $445.03 | ↑ +61% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $452.68 | ↑ +64% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $452.68 | ↑ +64% |
| Regence | RealValue | $465.62 | ↑ +69% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $517.35 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | Commercial | $517.35 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $517.44 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $517.44 | ↑ +88% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $529.55 | ↑ +92% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $544.31 | ↑ +98% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $545.44 | ↑ +98% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $545.44 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $548.51 | ↑ +99% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $550.73 | ↑ +100% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $551.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $556.03 | ↑ +102% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $556.03 | ↑ +102% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $582.51 | ↑ +111% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $648.43 | ↑ +135% |
| Premera | HMO | $806.78 | ↑ +193% |
| Premera | Signature | $931.23 | ↑ +238% |
| Premera | Prime | $931.23 | ↑ +238% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,138.17 | ↑ +313% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,636.96 | ↑ +494% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $3,965.85 | ↑ +1339% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Afo molded ankle gauntlet at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $275.60 | $452.68 – $2,334.63 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $275.60 | $517.35 – $2,243.87 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $275.60 | $452.68 – $2,334.63 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $275.60 | $452.68 – $2,334.63 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $275.60 | $465.62 – $979.67 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $275.60 | $452.68 – $2,334.63 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $540.36 – $594.40 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $540.36 – $1,641.61 |