Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$149.60
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.
$374.00
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 $1,602.78 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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| WellPoint | Apple Health | $26.02 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $26.02 | ↓ -83% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $28.10 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $28.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $28.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $81.97 | ↓ -45% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $92.38 | ↓ -38% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $193.12 | ↑ +29% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $194.86 | ↑ +30% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $200.70 | ↑ +34% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $200.70 | ↑ +34% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $202.65 | ↑ +35% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $204.60 | ↑ +37% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $204.60 | ↑ +37% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $214.34 | ↑ +43% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $224.55 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $224.55 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $236.21 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $239.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $243.39 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | HMO | $294.59 | ↑ +97% |
| Premera | Signature | $624.07 | ↑ +317% |
| Premera | Prime | $638.11 | ↑ +327% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $784.26 | ↑ +424% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $867.77 | ↑ +480% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $867.77 | ↑ +480% |
| Regence | RealValue | $892.56 | ↑ +497% |
| Regence | Commercial | $991.74 | ↑ +563% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,003.29 | ↑ +571% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,172.30 | ↑ +684% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,236.77 | ↑ +727% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,602.78 | ↑ +971% |
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Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $153.01 | $48.66 – $427.86 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $149.60 | $26.15 – $817.83 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $88.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $120.48 | $79.17 – $674.45 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $357.70 | $87.09 – $516.60 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $120.48 | $79.17 – $652.93 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $120.48 | $79.17 – $674.45 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $408.00 | $425.00 – $425.00 |