Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$834.80
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.
$2,087.00
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.
$446.21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $446.21 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $481.90 | ↓ -42% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $481.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $481.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $481.90 | ↓ -42% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,347.99 | ↑ +61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,405.55 | ↑ +68% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,567.34 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,567.34 | ↑ +88% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,584.04 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,648.73 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,661.46 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,669.60 | ↑ +100% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,888.97 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +133% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +133% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $1,964.52 | ↑ +135% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +138% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +138% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,077.86 | ↑ +149% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,809.17 | ↑ +237% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,923.75 | ↑ +610% |
| Premera | Prime | $6,057.05 | ↑ +626% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $7,444.25 | ↑ +792% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $8,236.99 | ↑ +887% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $8,236.99 | ↑ +887% |
| Regence | RealValue | $8,472.34 | ↑ +915% |
| Regence | Commercial | $9,413.71 | ↑ +1028% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9,523.38 | ↑ +1041% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $11,083.94 | ↑ +1228% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $11,793.96 | ↑ +1313% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15,537.36 | ↑ +1761% |
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Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $841.91 | $1,830.24 – $4,080.13 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $834.80 | $448.44 – $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 | $2,252.60 | $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 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,880.00 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,946.70 | $1,436.62 – $3,404.83 |