Blood count spun microhematocrit at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$8.40
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.
$21.00
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.
$3.99 with Molina vs $54.04 with Aetna — 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 | $3.99 | ↓ -53% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.99 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -49% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -49% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6.86 | ↓ -18% |
| Premera | HMO | $7.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Premera | Signature | $7.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Premera | Prime | $7.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $7.04 | ↓ -16% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $7.04 | ↓ -16% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $7.07 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $7.07 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $7.13 | ↓ -15% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $7.20 | ↓ -14% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $7.20 | ↓ -14% |
| Regence | RealValue | $7.24 | ↓ -14% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7.55 | ↓ -10% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $8.05 | ↓ -4% |
| Regence | Commercial | $8.05 | ↓ -4% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $8.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8.75 | ↑ +4% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $10.98 | ↑ +31% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $12.57 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $12.77 | ↑ +52% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $12.77 | ↑ +52% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $13.43 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $13.60 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $13.84 | ↑ +65% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14.16 | ↑ +69% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $54.04 | ↑ +543% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Blood count spun microhematocrit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $8.40 | $4.01 – $13.72 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $44.10 | $7.00 – $7.70 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $33.12 | $6.30 – $32.90 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $50.40 | $7.00 – $25.20 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $33.12 | $6.30 – $31.85 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $33.12 | $6.30 – $32.90 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $32.00 | $6.00 – $6.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $31.50 | not published |