Bundle his recording at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$13,480.40
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.
$33,701.00
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.
$4,379.03 with Molina vs $73,374.93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $4,379.03 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4,729.35 | ↓ -65% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $4,729.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4,729.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4,729.35 | ↓ -65% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $8,920.64 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $9,188.26 | ↓ -32% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $9,188.26 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $9,277.46 | ↓ -31% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $9,366.67 | ↓ -31% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $9,366.67 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $9,812.70 | ↓ -27% |
| Premera | HMO | $12,612.74 | ↓ -6% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $13,793.94 | ↑ +2% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $15,545.55 | ↑ +15% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $21,767.48 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $25,309.45 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $25,309.45 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $26,623.79 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $26,829.37 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $26,960.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $27,286.78 | ↑ +102% |
| Premera | Prime | $27,900.77 | ↑ +107% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $34,290.68 | ↑ +154% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $37,942.26 | ↑ +181% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $37,942.26 | ↑ +181% |
| Regence | RealValue | $39,026.33 | ↑ +190% |
| Regence | Commercial | $43,362.59 | ↑ +222% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $43,867.80 | ↑ +225% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $51,909.78 | ↑ +285% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $52,953.08 | ↑ +293% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $73,374.93 | ↑ +444% |
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Bundle his recording at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $2,880.64 | $3,596.53 – $18,319.14 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $13,480.40 | $4,400.95 – $37,440.17 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $16,884.00 | $9,031.93 – $28,663.41 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,454.70 | $8,691.51 – $22,119.90 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $16,884.00 | $9,031.93 – $27,603.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $16,884.00 | $9,057.27 – $28,663.41 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $16,303.20 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $4,812.50 | $330.46 – $21,835.98 |