Boot j walker l at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$239.60
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.
$599.00
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.
$120.14 with First Choice vs $1,395.64 with Kaiser — 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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| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $120.14 | ↓ -50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $139.69 | ↓ -42% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $139.69 | ↓ -42% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $146.94 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $148.07 | ↓ -38% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $148.80 | ↓ -38% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $159.30 | ↓ -34% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $159.30 | ↓ -34% |
| Regence | RealValue | $163.85 | ↓ -32% |
| Regence | Commercial | $182.06 | ↓ -24% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $182.06 | ↓ -24% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $186.36 | ↓ -22% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $191.95 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $191.95 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $193.81 | ↓ -19% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $195.67 | ↓ -18% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $195.67 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $204.99 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $228.19 | ↓ -5% |
| Premera | HMO | $283.92 | ↑ +18% |
| Premera | Signature | $327.71 | ↑ +37% |
| Premera | Prime | $327.71 | ↑ +37% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $400.53 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $576.07 | ↑ +140% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,395.64 | ↑ +482% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Boot j walker l at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $52.97 | $79.97 – $614.93 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $239.60 | $159.30 – $821.59 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $141.31 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $287.64 | $190.16 – $577.71 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $567.85 | $190.16 – $483.96 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $287.64 | $190.16 – $465.06 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $287.64 | $190.16 – $422.16 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $88.40 | $190.16 – $359.65 |