Contrast x-ray of wrist at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$874.00
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.
$2,185.00
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 | ↓ -90% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -89% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $92.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $268.71 | ↓ -69% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $302.83 | ↓ -65% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $399.01 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $410.98 | ↓ -53% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $410.98 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $414.97 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $418.96 | ↓ -52% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $418.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $438.92 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | HMO | $690.19 | ↓ -21% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,129.03 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,312.75 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,312.75 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,380.92 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,398.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,405.13 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,422.87 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,436.75 | ↑ +64% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,765.80 | ↑ +102% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,953.84 | ↑ +124% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,953.84 | ↑ +124% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,009.67 | ↑ +130% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,232.96 | ↑ +155% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,258.98 | ↑ +158% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,443.11 | ↑ +180% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,897.70 | ↑ +232% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,281.98 | ↑ +276% |
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Contrast x-ray of wrist at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $874.00 | $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 | $616.70 | $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 | $405.13 – $1,794.70 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,280.00 | $358.00 – $358.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,135.40 | $340.77 – $719.22 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $627.90 | $236.95 – $1,493.03 |