Biopsy of heart lining at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$5,991.60
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.
$14,979.00
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.
$1,663.47 with Molina vs $29,703.84 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 | $1,663.47 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,796.54 | ↓ -70% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,796.54 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,796.54 | ↓ -70% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,796.54 | ↓ -70% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $3,611.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $3,719.61 | ↓ -38% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $3,719.61 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $3,755.73 | ↓ -37% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $3,791.84 | ↓ -37% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $3,791.84 | ↓ -37% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $3,972.40 | ↓ -34% |
| Premera | HMO | $5,231.86 | ↓ -13% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $5,239.92 | ↓ -13% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $5,905.31 | ↓ -1% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $9,674.94 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $11,249.23 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $11,249.23 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | Signature | $11,646.25 | ↑ +94% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $11,833.41 | ↑ +98% |
| Premera | Prime | $11,908.31 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $11,924.78 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $11,983.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $14,635.58 | ↑ +144% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $16,194.10 | ↑ +170% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $16,194.10 | ↑ +170% |
| Regence | RealValue | $16,656.79 | ↑ +178% |
| Regence | Commercial | $18,507.54 | ↑ +209% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $18,723.17 | ↑ +212% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $21,531.84 | ↑ +259% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $23,429.60 | ↑ +291% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $29,703.84 | ↑ +396% |
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Biopsy of heart lining at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $1,395.78 | $3,034.33 – $8,105.48 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $5,991.60 | $1,671.79 – $15,156.63 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $8,451.84 | $3,656.33 – $13,496.13 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,942.40 | $3,518.52 – $8,954.64 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $8,451.84 | $3,656.33 – $12,997.30 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $8,451.84 | $3,666.59 – $13,496.13 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $6,150.40 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $4,561.90 | $2,824.42 – $6,509.26 |