Colposcopy vulva w/biopsy 56821 at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$456.80
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.
$1,142.00
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.
$323.44 with Molina vs $2,866.75 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 | $323.44 | ↓ -29% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $348.53 | ↓ -24% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $349.32 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $349.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $349.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $349.32 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $358.98 | ↓ -21% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $358.98 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $362.47 | ↓ -21% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $365.95 | ↓ -20% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $365.95 | ↓ -20% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $383.38 | ↓ -16% |
| Premera | HMO | $546.93 | ↑ +20% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $737.62 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $857.64 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $857.64 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $902.18 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $909.15 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $913.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,018.85 | ↑ +123% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,148.23 | ↑ +151% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,172.14 | ↑ +157% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,198.52 | ↑ +162% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,473.01 | ↑ +222% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,629.86 | ↑ +257% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,629.86 | ↑ +257% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,676.42 | ↑ +267% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,862.69 | ↑ +308% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,884.39 | ↑ +313% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,080.95 | ↑ +356% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,296.27 | ↑ +403% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,866.75 | ↑ +528% |
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Colposcopy vulva w/biopsy 56821 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $456.80 | $325.06 – $1,462.78 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $794.39 – $794.39 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $456.80 | $317.59 – $1,462.78 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $456.80 | $324.94 – $1,462.78 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $529.89 | $4.86 – $540.88 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $456.80 | $341.78 – $1,576.60 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $456.80 | $317.59 – $1,462.78 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $339.57 – $373.53 |