Consultation pathology during surgery cytological exam initial site at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$518.00
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.
$1,295.00
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.
$26.02 with WellPoint vs $7,579.37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $26.02 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $26.02 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $28.10 | ↓ -95% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $28.10 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $28.10 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $81.97 | ↓ -84% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $92.38 | ↓ -82% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $669.15 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $778.04 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $778.04 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $818.44 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $828.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $843.30 | ↑ +63% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $921.47 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $949.12 | ↑ +83% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $949.12 | ↑ +83% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $958.33 | ↑ +85% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $967.55 | ↑ +87% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $967.55 | ↑ +87% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,013.62 | ↑ +96% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,454.67 | ↑ +181% |
| Premera | Signature | $3,141.80 | ↑ +507% |
| Premera | Prime | $3,212.50 | ↑ +520% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,948.23 | ↑ +662% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $4,368.66 | ↑ +743% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $4,368.66 | ↑ +743% |
| Regence | RealValue | $4,493.48 | ↑ +767% |
| Regence | Commercial | $4,992.75 | ↑ +864% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $5,050.92 | ↑ +875% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $5,588.39 | ↑ +979% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $6,107.25 | ↑ +1079% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $7,579.37 | ↑ +1363% |
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Consultation pathology during surgery cytological exam initial site at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $327.71 | $37.02 – $2,112.81 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $518.00 | $26.15 – $3,867.44 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $425.60 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $77.28 | $61.29 – $2,952.54 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $286.30 | $67.42 – $2,284.91 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $77.28 | $61.29 – $2,858.31 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $77.28 | $61.29 – $2,952.54 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,939.20 | $2,020.00 – $2,020.00 |