Biopsy of epididymis at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,444.00
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.
$3,610.00
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.
$1,454.89 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 | $1,454.89 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,571.28 | ↑ +9% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,571.28 | ↑ +9% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,571.28 | ↑ +9% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,571.28 | ↑ +9% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,888.97 | ↑ +31% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +35% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,945.64 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $1,964.52 | ↑ +36% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +37% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,983.41 | ↑ +37% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,077.86 | ↑ +44% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,331.70 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,711.11 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,711.11 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,809.17 | ↑ +95% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,851.90 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,873.92 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,888.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $4,582.90 | ↑ +217% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $5,164.85 | ↑ +258% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,923.75 | ↑ +310% |
| Premera | Prime | $6,057.05 | ↑ +319% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $7,444.25 | ↑ +416% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $8,236.99 | ↑ +470% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $8,236.99 | ↑ +470% |
| Regence | RealValue | $8,472.34 | ↑ +487% |
| Regence | Commercial | $9,413.71 | ↑ +552% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9,523.38 | ↑ +560% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $11,083.94 | ↑ +668% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $11,793.96 | ↑ +717% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15,537.36 | ↑ +976% |
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Biopsy of epididymis at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,444.00 | $1,462.17 – $7,928.07 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $4,080.13 – $4,080.13 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,444.00 | $1,428.57 – $7,928.07 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,444.00 | $1,461.60 – $7,928.07 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $2,026.74 | $3.63 – $601.05 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,444.00 | $1,537.36 – $8,544.95 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,444.00 | $1,428.57 – $7,928.07 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $1,840.45 – $2,024.49 |