Carbohydrate urine - sendout at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$15.20
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.
$38.00
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.
$3.45 with Molina vs $42.46 with Aetna — 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 | $3.45 | ↓ -77% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.45 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3.73 | ↓ -75% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $5.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Premera | HMO | $5.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Premera | Signature | $5.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Premera | Prime | $5.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $5.53 | ↓ -64% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $5.53 | ↓ -64% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $5.55 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $5.55 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $5.61 | ↓ -63% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $5.66 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $5.66 | ↓ -63% |
| Regence | RealValue | $5.69 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $5.93 | ↓ -61% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $6.32 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | Commercial | $6.32 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6.60 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $6.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10.87 | ↓ -28% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $12.25 | ↓ -19% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $19.38 | ↑ +28% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $22.53 | ↑ +48% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $22.53 | ↑ +48% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $23.70 | ↑ +56% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $24.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $24.42 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $42.46 | ↑ +179% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Carbohydrate urine - sendout at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $15.20 | $3.47 – $10.78 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $24.80 | $4.00 – $4.00 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $15.20 | $3.39 – $10.78 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $15.20 | $3.47 – $10.78 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $14.79 | $3.85 – $17.19 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $39.20 | $3.65 – $9.97 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $15.20 | $3.39 – $10.78 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $5.50 – $6.05 |