Apply short leg castambul type 29425 at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$502.80
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.
$1,257.00
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.
$133.07 with Molina vs $2,631.23 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $133.07 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $143.72 | ↓ -71% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $143.72 | ↓ -71% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $143.72 | ↓ -71% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $143.72 | ↓ -71% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $319.89 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $329.49 | ↓ -34% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $329.49 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $332.69 | ↓ -34% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $335.88 | ↓ -33% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $335.88 | ↓ -33% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $351.88 | ↓ -30% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $419.17 | ↓ -17% |
| Premera | HMO | $449.44 | ↓ -11% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $472.40 | ↓ -6% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $811.90 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $944.01 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $944.01 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | Signature | $981.24 | ↑ +95% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $993.03 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,000.70 | ↑ +99% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,003.32 | ↑ +100% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,005.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,233.11 | ↑ +145% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,364.42 | ↑ +171% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,364.42 | ↑ +171% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,403.40 | ↑ +179% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,559.33 | ↑ +210% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,577.50 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,816.82 | ↑ +261% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,886.89 | ↑ +275% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,631.23 | ↑ +423% |
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Apply short leg castambul type 29425 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $502.80 | $133.74 – $1,342.61 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $652.77 – $930.07 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $228.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $796.80 | $323.88 – $1,080.15 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $489.30 | $311.67 – $793.21 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $796.80 | $323.88 – $1,045.68 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $796.80 | $324.79 – $1,080.15 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $586.40 | not published |