Blood typing abo at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$96.40
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.
$241.00
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.
$3.03 with Molina vs $1,251.68 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 | $3.03 | ↓ -97% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.03 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $9.56 | ↓ -90% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $10.77 | ↓ -89% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $124.66 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $144.94 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $144.94 | ↑ +50% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $152.17 | ↑ +58% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $152.47 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $154.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $156.74 | ↑ +63% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $156.74 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $157.10 | ↑ +63% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $158.26 | ↑ +64% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $159.78 | ↑ +66% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $159.78 | ↑ +66% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $167.39 | ↑ +74% |
| Premera | HMO | $217.52 | ↑ +126% |
| Premera | Signature | $466.71 | ↑ +384% |
| Premera | Prime | $477.22 | ↑ +395% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $586.51 | ↑ +508% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $648.99 | ↑ +573% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $648.99 | ↑ +573% |
| Regence | RealValue | $667.53 | ↑ +592% |
| Regence | Commercial | $741.70 | ↑ +669% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $750.34 | ↑ +678% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $881.82 | ↑ +815% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,251.68 | ↑ +1198% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Blood typing abo at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $67.83 | $5.42 – $315.92 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $96.40 | $3.05 – $638.68 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $45.36 | $13.20 – $163.09 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $39.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $43.68 | $5.82 – $512.44 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $125.30 | $6.40 – $392.51 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $43.68 | $5.82 – $496.09 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $43.68 | $5.82 – $512.44 |