Brace knee hing pat open med at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$82.40
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.
$206.00
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.
$133.06 with First Choice vs $1,216.64 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 | $133.06 | ↑ +61% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $138.87 | ↑ +69% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $138.87 | ↑ +69% |
| Regence | RealValue | $142.84 | ↑ +73% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $154.71 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $154.71 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | Commercial | $158.71 | ↑ +93% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $158.71 | ↑ +93% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $162.45 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $162.74 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $164.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $164.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $167.33 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $167.33 | ↑ +103% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $168.95 | ↑ +105% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $170.58 | ↑ +107% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $170.58 | ↑ +107% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $178.70 | ↑ +117% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $198.92 | ↑ +141% |
| Premera | HMO | $247.50 | ↑ +200% |
| Premera | Signature | $285.68 | ↑ +247% |
| Premera | Prime | $285.68 | ↑ +247% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $349.16 | ↑ +324% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $502.19 | ↑ +509% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,216.64 | ↑ +1377% |
| 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 knee hing pat open med at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $40.02 | $60.41 – $536.00 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $82.40 | $138.87 – $716.21 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $62.63 | $165.77 – $503.61 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $62.63 | $165.77 – $405.39 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $62.63 | $165.77 – $368.01 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $62.63 | $165.77 – $540.52 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $82.40 | $158.71 – $688.37 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $53.33 | $76.12 – $729.05 |