Bronchial challenge at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$415.20
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.
$1,038.00
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.
$72.31 with Molina vs $3,510.43 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 | $72.31 | ↓ -83% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $78.09 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $78.09 | ↓ -81% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $78.09 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $78.09 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $227.76 | ↓ -45% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $256.68 | ↓ -38% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $426.79 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $439.59 | ↑ +6% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $439.59 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $443.86 | ↑ +7% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $448.13 | ↑ +8% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $448.13 | ↑ +8% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $469.47 | ↑ +13% |
| Premera | HMO | $524.65 | ↑ +26% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $670.44 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $779.54 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $779.54 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $820.02 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $826.35 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $830.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,146.85 | ↑ +176% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,172.65 | ↑ +182% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,441.21 | ↑ +247% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,594.66 | ↑ +284% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,594.66 | ↑ +284% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,640.22 | ↑ +295% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,822.47 | ↑ +339% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,843.70 | ↑ +344% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,130.24 | ↑ +413% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,202.67 | ↑ +431% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,510.43 | ↑ +745% |
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Bronchial challenge at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $604.77 | $651.18 – $1,369.50 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $415.20 | $72.67 – $1,791.23 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $543.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $849.12 | $432.11 – $1,312.76 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,167.60 | $415.83 – $1,058.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $849.12 | $432.11 – $1,151.61 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $849.12 | $433.33 – $1,189.57 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $685.60 | not published |