Antistreptolysin o screen at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$20.40
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.
$51.00
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.
$5.65 with SCAN vs $44.54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $5.65 | ↓ -72% |
| Premera | HMO | $5.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Premera | Signature | $5.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Premera | Prime | $5.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $5.81 | ↓ -72% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $5.81 | ↓ -72% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $5.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $5.82 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $5.88 | ↓ -71% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $5.94 | ↓ -71% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $5.94 | ↓ -71% |
| Regence | RealValue | $5.97 | ↓ -71% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $6.22 | ↓ -70% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $6.64 | ↓ -67% |
| Regence | Commercial | $6.64 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6.92 | ↓ -66% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $7.21 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $7.37 | ↓ -64% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $7.37 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $7.96 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $7.96 | ↓ -61% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $7.96 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $23.21 | ↑ +14% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $26.16 | ↑ +28% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $26.48 | ↑ +30% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $30.79 | ↑ +51% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $30.79 | ↑ +51% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $32.39 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $32.80 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $33.37 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $44.54 | ↑ +118% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Antistreptolysin o screen at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $19.75 | $5.77 – $44.71 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $20.40 | $5.65 – $11.31 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $172.20 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $206.50 | $5.77 – $20.77 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $25.60 | $4.00 – $4.00 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $139.30 | $5.77 – $24.61 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $14.40 | $5.77 – $10.46 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $14.80 | $5.98 – $10.36 |