Brachy source yttrium-90 at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$28,460.00
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.
$71,150.00
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.
$9,005.09 with Molina vs $163,635.61 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 | $9,005.09 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $9,725.49 | ↓ -66% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $9,725.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $9,725.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $9,725.49 | ↓ -66% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $19,894.18 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $20,491.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $20,491.00 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $20,689.94 | ↓ -27% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $20,888.89 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $20,888.89 | ↓ -27% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $21,883.59 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $28,366.02 | ↓ -0% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $31,968.05 | ↑ +12% |
| Premera | HMO | $32,989.10 | ↑ +16% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $41,660.55 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $48,439.50 | ↑ +70% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $48,439.50 | ↑ +70% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $50,955.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $51,348.45 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $51,600.00 | ↑ +81% |
| Premera | Signature | $65,869.91 | ↑ +131% |
| Premera | Prime | $67,352.08 | ↑ +137% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $82,777.23 | ↑ +191% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $91,592.11 | ↑ +222% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $91,592.11 | ↑ +222% |
| Regence | RealValue | $94,209.03 | ↑ +231% |
| Regence | Commercial | $104,676.70 | ↑ +268% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $105,896.27 | ↑ +272% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $119,614.59 | ↑ +320% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $138,500.76 | ↑ +387% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $163,635.61 | ↑ +475% |
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Brachy source yttrium-90 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $45,362.66 | $43,219.77 – $94,498.79 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $28,460.00 | $9,050.17 – $83,496.44 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $32,820.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $36,861.17 | $17,771.01 – $80,330.38 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $34,172.79 | $17,771.01 – $61,529.65 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $36,861.17 | $17,771.01 – $71,784.59 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $36,861.17 | $17,771.01 – $80,330.38 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $16,979.60 | not published |