Csf leakage imaging at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$2,065.60
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.
$5,164.00
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.
$681.37 with Molina vs $12,179.36 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 | $681.37 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -64% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -64% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,480.72 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,525.14 | ↓ -26% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,525.14 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $1,539.95 | ↓ -25% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,554.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,554.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,628.79 | ↓ -21% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,146.32 | ↑ +4% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,418.87 | ↑ +17% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,486.43 | ↑ +20% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,668.21 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $3,102.38 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $3,102.38 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3,263.49 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,304.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $3,362.63 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,188.16 | ↑ +151% |
| Premera | Prime | $5,304.91 | ↑ +157% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $6,519.85 | ↑ +216% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $7,214.16 | ↑ +249% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $7,214.16 | ↑ +249% |
| Regence | RealValue | $7,420.28 | ↑ +259% |
| Regence | Commercial | $8,244.76 | ↑ +299% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $8,340.81 | ↑ +304% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $8,930.70 | ↑ +332% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $10,438.98 | ↑ +405% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $12,179.36 | ↑ +490% |
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Csf leakage imaging at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $976.66 | $2,123.18 – $3,611.37 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $2,065.60 | $684.78 – $6,214.62 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $1,499.19 – $5,979.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,270.40 | $1,442.68 – $4,579.88 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $1,499.19 – $5,788.46 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,099.68 | $907.77 – $5,979.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $4,483.20 | $1,306.00 – $1,306.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,905.40 | $1,258.22 – $2,668.97 |