App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f >100sq cm addl 100sq cm at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$774.80
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.
$1,937.00
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.
$1,251.11 with First Choice vs $4,912.56 with Ambetter — 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 | $1,251.11 | ↑ +61% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $1,383.82 | ↑ +79% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,454.69 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,454.69 | ↑ +88% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,494.52 | ↑ +93% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,494.52 | ↑ +93% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,494.52 | ↑ +93% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,494.52 | ↑ +93% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,530.23 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,542.05 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,549.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $4,359.03 | ↑ +463% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $4,912.56 | ↑ +534% |
| Regence | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | RealValue | not published by hospital | — |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Signature | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f >100sq cm addl 100sq cm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $3,058.21 | $6,648.32 – $6,925.33 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $774.80 | $1,390.75 – $1,502.01 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,689.12 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,689.12 | not published |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,689.12 | $9,339.00 – $9,339.00 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $644.80 | $1,985.00 – $1,985.00 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $1,121.60 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $4,075.31 | $5,817.28 – $8,310.40 |