Bronchial valve init insert at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$13,938.00
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.
$34,845.00
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.
$2,407.17 with Molina vs $66,392.69 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 | $2,407.17 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -81% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $7,582.59 | ↓ -46% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $8,071.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $8,313.92 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $8,313.92 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $8,394.63 | ↓ -40% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $8,475.35 | ↓ -39% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $8,475.35 | ↓ -39% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $8,545.46 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $8,878.94 | ↓ -36% |
| Premera | HMO | $10,866.11 | ↓ -22% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $22,506.39 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Signature | $25,007.26 | ↑ +79% |
| Premera | Prime | $25,569.96 | ↑ +83% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $26,168.60 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $26,168.60 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $27,527.55 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $27,740.10 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $27,876.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $31,426.06 | ↑ +125% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $34,772.62 | ↑ +149% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $34,772.62 | ↑ +149% |
| Regence | RealValue | $35,766.12 | ↑ +157% |
| Regence | Commercial | $39,740.13 | ↑ +185% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $40,203.14 | ↑ +188% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $47,356.19 | ↑ +240% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $48,661.38 | ↑ +249% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $66,392.69 | ↑ +376% |
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Bronchial valve init insert at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $13,938.00 | $2,419.22 – $33,877.43 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $16,834.43 – $16,834.43 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $10,340.40 | $2,310.79 – $27,532.51 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $13,938.00 | $2,363.62 – $33,877.43 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $13,938.00 | $2,418.27 – $33,877.43 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $8,447.13 | $6.05 – $1,032.70 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $13,317.20 | $2,543.63 – $36,513.42 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $13,938.00 | $2,363.62 – $33,877.43 |