Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, without contrast) at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,793.20
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.
$4,483.00
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.
$272.89 with SCAN vs $2,919.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $272.89 | ↓ -85% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $281.08 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $281.08 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $283.81 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $286.54 | ↓ -84% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $286.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $300.18 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $352.79 | ↓ -80% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $381.01 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $381.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $381.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $381.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Premera | HMO | $437.46 | ↓ -76% |
| Premera | Signature | $895.29 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | Prime | $915.44 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,111.29 | ↓ -38% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,125.09 | ↓ -37% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,244.92 | ↓ -31% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,244.92 | ↓ -31% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,252.41 | ↓ -30% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,280.49 | ↓ -29% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,422.77 | ↓ -21% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,439.34 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,653.59 | ↓ -8% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,836.63 | ↑ +2% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,244.61 | ↑ +25% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,316.20 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,693.09 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,693.09 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,832.94 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,868.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,919.00 | ↑ +63% |
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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, without contrast) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $1,658.25 | $518.84 – $3,755.12 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,793.20 | $272.89 – $1,145.33 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,957.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,038.24 | $276.30 – $1,095.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,523.50 | $265.88 – $838.94 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,038.24 | $276.30 – $1,060.33 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,038.24 | $277.07 – $1,095.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,680.00 | $242.00 – $242.00 |