Chrom analysis at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$78.00
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.
$195.00
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.
$30.61 with Molina vs $268.73 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 | $30.61 | ↓ -61% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $30.61 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $33.06 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $33.06 | ↓ -58% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $33.06 | ↓ -58% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $34.11 | ↓ -56% |
| Premera | HMO | $34.81 | ↓ -55% |
| Premera | Signature | $34.81 | ↓ -55% |
| Premera | Prime | $34.81 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $35.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $35.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $35.14 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $35.14 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $35.48 | ↓ -55% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $35.82 | ↓ -54% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $35.82 | ↓ -54% |
| Regence | RealValue | $36.03 | ↓ -54% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $37.53 | ↓ -52% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $40.03 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | Commercial | $40.03 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -46% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $43.51 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $96.42 | ↑ +24% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $100.76 | ↑ +29% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $108.67 | ↑ +39% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $117.16 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $117.16 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $123.24 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $124.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $126.98 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $268.73 | ↑ +245% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Chrom analysis at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $156.70 | $34.81 – $354.84 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $78.00 | $30.76 – $68.23 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $140.16 | $31.33 – $163.61 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $279.30 | $34.81 – $125.32 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $140.16 | $31.33 – $158.39 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $140.16 | $31.33 – $163.61 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $156.80 | $95.00 – $95.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $445.20 | not published |