Biopsy abdominal mass at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$946.00
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.
$2,365.00
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.
$522.24 with Molina vs $15,537.36 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 |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $522.24 | ↓ -45% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $564.02 | ↓ -40% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $564.02 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $564.02 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $564.02 | ↓ -40% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,527.55 | ↑ +61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,645.05 | ↑ +74% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,776.12 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,776.12 | ↑ +88% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,853.95 | ↑ +96% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,868.35 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,882.78 | ↑ +99% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,888.97 | ↑ +100% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,892.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +106% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +106% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $1,964.52 | ↑ +108% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +110% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +110% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,077.86 | ↑ +120% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,809.17 | ↑ +197% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,923.75 | ↑ +526% |
| Premera | Prime | $6,057.05 | ↑ +540% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $7,444.25 | ↑ +687% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $8,236.99 | ↑ +771% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $8,236.99 | ↑ +771% |
| Regence | RealValue | $8,472.34 | ↑ +796% |
| Regence | Commercial | $9,413.71 | ↑ +895% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9,523.38 | ↑ +907% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $11,083.94 | ↑ +1072% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $11,793.96 | ↑ +1147% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15,537.36 | ↑ +1542% |
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Biopsy abdominal mass at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $926.10 | $2,013.26 – $4,080.13 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $946.00 | $524.85 – $7,928.07 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,420.32 | $1,912.53 – $6,684.56 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,660.00 | $1,840.45 – $4,683.94 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,420.32 | $1,912.53 – $6,437.49 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,420.32 | $1,917.90 – $6,684.56 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $627.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,798.60 | $1,436.62 – $3,404.83 |