Brace ankle stablizing lg at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$69.20
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.
$173.00
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.
$47.80 with First Choice vs $825.51 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 | $47.80 | ↓ -31% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $55.57 | ↓ -20% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $55.57 | ↓ -20% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $58.46 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $58.91 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $59.20 | ↓ -14% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $94.23 | ↑ +36% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $94.23 | ↑ +36% |
| Regence | RealValue | $96.92 | ↑ +40% |
| Regence | Commercial | $107.69 | ↑ +56% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $107.69 | ↑ +56% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $110.23 | ↑ +59% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $113.54 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $113.54 | ↑ +64% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $114.64 | ↑ +66% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $115.74 | ↑ +67% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $115.74 | ↑ +67% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $121.25 | ↑ +75% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $134.98 | ↑ +95% |
| Premera | HMO | $167.94 | ↑ +143% |
| Premera | Signature | $193.84 | ↑ +180% |
| Premera | Prime | $193.84 | ↑ +180% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $236.92 | ↑ +242% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $340.73 | ↑ +392% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $825.51 | ↑ +1093% |
| 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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Brace ankle stablizing lg at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $69.20 | $94.23 – $485.96 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $115.58 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $149.28 | $112.48 – $341.71 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $335.85 | $112.48 – $286.26 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $149.28 | $112.48 – $275.07 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $149.28 | $112.48 – $249.71 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $72.30 | $112.48 – $212.72 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $115.58 | not published |