Apply halo w/removal cranial at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,136.80
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.
$2,842.00
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.
$1,705.20 with Premera vs $17,449.42 with Uniform Medical — 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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| Premera | Signature | $1,705.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,705.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,705.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,705.20 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,835.65 | ↑ +61% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,839.09 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,894.27 | ↑ +67% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,894.27 | ↑ +67% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $1,912.66 | ↑ +68% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,931.05 | ↑ +70% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,931.05 | ↑ +70% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,023.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,054.77 | ↑ +81% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,134.34 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,134.34 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,245.18 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,262.52 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,273.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $12,920.78 | ↑ +1037% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $15,092.40 | ↑ +1228% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $15,092.40 | ↑ +1228% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15,127.09 | ↑ +1231% |
| Regence | RealValue | $15,523.61 | ↑ +1266% |
| Regence | Commercial | $17,248.46 | ↑ +1417% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $17,449.42 | ↑ +1435% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| 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 | — |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,136.80 | $1,839.09 – $7,718.72 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $4,936.64 – $4,936.64 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,009.40 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,108.10 | $1,791.86 – $4,560.28 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,213.80 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $895.30 | $1,791.86 – $3,314.93 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,276.80 | $870.90 – $3,314.93 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,178.80 | $1,791.86 – $12,776.00 |