Bronchoscopy dilate/fx repr at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$4,802.80
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$12,007.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$2,407.17 with Molina vs $35,074.21 with United Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $2,407.17 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -46% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -46% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,599.75 | ↓ -46% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4,264.19 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4,392.11 | ↓ -9% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4,392.11 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $4,434.75 | ↓ -8% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4,477.40 | ↓ -7% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4,477.40 | ↓ -7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4,690.61 | ↓ -2% |
| Premera | HMO | $5,854.74 | ↑ +22% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $7,582.59 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $7,755.32 | ↑ +61% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $8,545.46 | ↑ +78% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $9,017.26 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $9,017.26 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $9,485.53 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,558.77 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $9,605.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $13,682.66 | ↑ +185% |
| Premera | Prime | $13,990.54 | ↑ +191% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $17,194.69 | ↑ +258% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $19,025.73 | ↑ +296% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $19,025.73 | ↑ +296% |
| Regence | RealValue | $19,569.33 | ↑ +307% |
| Regence | Commercial | $21,743.70 | ↑ +353% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $21,997.03 | ↑ +358% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $25,222.22 | ↑ +425% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $26,219.16 | ↑ +446% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $35,074.21 | ↑ +630% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Bronchoscopy dilate/fx repr at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $4,802.80 | $2,419.22 – $17,896.91 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $9,070.53 – $9,070.53 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $4,802.80 | $2,363.62 – $17,896.91 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $4,802.80 | $2,418.27 – $17,896.91 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $4,651.71 | $5.78 – $962.82 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $4,802.80 | $2,543.63 – $19,289.46 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $4,802.80 | $2,363.62 – $17,896.91 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $4,154.66 – $4,570.13 |