Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$3,810.00
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.
$9,525.00
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.
$2,042.49 with Molina vs $36,834.22 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 | $2,042.49 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,205.89 | ↓ -42% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,205.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,205.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,205.89 | ↓ -42% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4,478.16 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4,612.51 | ↑ +21% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4,612.51 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $4,657.29 | ↑ +22% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4,702.07 | ↑ +23% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4,702.07 | ↑ +23% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4,925.98 | ↑ +29% |
| Premera | HMO | $6,037.66 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $6,152.20 | ↑ +61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $6,433.86 | ↑ +69% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $7,153.28 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $7,153.28 | ↑ +88% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $7,250.86 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $7,524.75 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7,582.85 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $7,620.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $13,927.08 | ↑ +266% |
| Premera | Prime | $14,240.46 | ↑ +274% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $17,501.84 | ↑ +359% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $19,365.61 | ↑ +408% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $19,365.61 | ↑ +408% |
| Regence | RealValue | $19,918.92 | ↑ +423% |
| Regence | Commercial | $22,132.13 | ↑ +481% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $22,389.99 | ↑ +488% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $26,195.90 | ↑ +588% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $27,038.30 | ↑ +610% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $36,834.22 | ↑ +867% |
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Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,810.00 | $2,052.72 – $18,794.97 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $9,353.91 – $9,353.91 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $8,856.48 | $4,534.03 – $14,753.91 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $8,856.48 | $4,534.03 – $14,208.59 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $8,856.48 | $4,546.75 – $14,753.91 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $2,590.40 | $1,960.71 – $15,298.21 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $447.60 | $4,671.06 – $11,863.51 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $3,810.00 | $2,005.54 – $18,794.97 |