Chromo high res and frag x - sendout at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$310.40
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.
$776.00
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 $176.25 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 | ↓ -90% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $30.61 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $33.06 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $33.06 | ↓ -89% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $33.06 | ↓ -89% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $55.90 | ↓ -82% |
| Premera | HMO | $57.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Premera | Signature | $57.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Premera | Prime | $57.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $57.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $57.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $57.58 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $57.58 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $58.14 | ↓ -81% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $58.69 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $58.69 | ↓ -81% |
| Regence | RealValue | $59.04 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $61.49 | ↓ -80% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $65.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Regence | Commercial | $65.60 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $68.45 | ↓ -78% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $71.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $96.42 | ↓ -69% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $101.41 | ↓ -67% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $108.67 | ↓ -65% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $117.91 | ↓ -62% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $117.91 | ↓ -62% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $124.03 | ↓ -60% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $125.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $127.80 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $176.25 | ↓ -43% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Chromo high res and frag x - sendout at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $218.53 | $57.04 – $494.85 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $310.40 | $30.76 – $111.80 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $58.56 | $51.34 – $173.29 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $58.56 | $51.34 – $171.12 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $58.56 | $51.34 – $126.63 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $177.60 | $35.00 – $35.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $212.80 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $58.56 | $57.04 – $228.16 |