Comprehensive hearing test at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$354.00
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.
$885.00
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.
$57.74 with Molina vs $1,210.52 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 | $57.74 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $62.36 | ↓ -82% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $62.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $62.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $62.36 | ↓ -82% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $147.17 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $151.58 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $151.58 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $153.05 | ↓ -57% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $154.52 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $154.52 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $161.88 | ↓ -54% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $181.88 | ↓ -49% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $204.97 | ↓ -42% |
| Premera | HMO | $272.43 | ↓ -23% |
| Premera | Signature | $570.73 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $571.62 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Prime | $583.57 | ↑ +65% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $664.64 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $664.64 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $699.15 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $704.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $708.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $717.22 | ↑ +103% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $793.60 | ↑ +124% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $793.60 | ↑ +124% |
| Regence | RealValue | $816.27 | ↑ +131% |
| Regence | Commercial | $906.97 | ↑ +156% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $917.54 | ↑ +159% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,070.31 | ↑ +202% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,143.81 | ↑ +223% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,210.52 | ↑ +242% |
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Comprehensive hearing test at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $354.00 | $58.03 – $673.34 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $354.00 | $56.69 – $673.34 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $354.00 | $58.00 – $673.34 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $226.95 | $1.12 – $416.78 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $354.00 | $61.01 – $665.74 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $354.00 | $56.69 – $673.34 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $143.39 – $157.72 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $149.00 – $650.25 |