Contrast x-ray of knee joint at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$921.60
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.
$2,304.00
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.
$85.30 with Molina vs $3,281.98 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 | $85.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -90% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $268.71 | ↓ -71% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $302.83 | ↓ -67% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $399.01 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $410.98 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $410.98 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $414.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $418.96 | ↓ -55% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $418.96 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $438.92 | ↓ -52% |
| Premera | HMO | $690.19 | ↓ -25% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,190.39 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,384.09 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,384.09 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,405.13 | ↑ +52% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,436.75 | ↑ +56% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,455.97 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,474.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,500.20 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,765.80 | ↑ +92% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,953.84 | ↑ +112% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,953.84 | ↑ +112% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,009.67 | ↑ +118% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,232.96 | ↑ +142% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,258.98 | ↑ +145% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,443.11 | ↑ +165% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,897.70 | ↑ +214% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,281.98 | ↑ +256% |
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Contrast x-ray of knee joint at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $921.60 | $85.73 – $1,705.83 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,653.12 | $403.99 – $1,794.70 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $722.40 | $388.77 – $1,374.66 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,653.12 | $403.99 – $1,737.42 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,653.12 | $321.83 – $1,794.70 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,280.00 | $358.00 – $358.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,155.70 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,661.10 | $340.77 – $719.22 |