Alpha-fetoprotein afp-l3 frac & total at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$149.60
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$374.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$22.59 with Molina vs $497.25 with Aetna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | $22.59 | ↓ -85% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $22.59 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $24.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $24.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $24.40 | ↓ -84% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $63.12 | ↓ -58% |
| Premera | HMO | $64.41 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Signature | $64.41 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Prime | $64.41 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $64.81 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $64.81 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $65.02 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $65.02 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $65.65 | ↓ -56% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $66.28 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $66.28 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | RealValue | $66.66 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $69.43 | ↓ -54% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $71.17 | ↓ -52% |
| Regence | Commercial | $74.07 | ↓ -50% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $74.07 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $77.29 | ↓ -48% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $80.21 | ↓ -46% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $80.51 | ↓ -46% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $193.12 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $224.55 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $224.55 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $236.21 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $239.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $243.39 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $497.25 | ↑ +232% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Alpha-fetoprotein afp-l3 frac & total at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $236.91 | $64.41 – $536.47 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $149.60 | $22.71 – $126.24 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $203.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $297.60 | $57.97 – $302.73 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $297.60 | $57.97 – $293.07 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $297.60 | $57.97 – $302.73 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $63.70 | $64.41 – $119.16 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $233.10 | $64.41 – $251.84 |