Cystoscopy removal of clots at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$3,235.60
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.
$8,089.00
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.
$1,102.68 with Molina vs $33,161.08 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 | $1,102.68 | ↓ -66% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,190.89 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,190.89 | ↓ -63% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,190.89 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,190.89 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,473.43 | ↑ +7% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,914.50 | ↑ +21% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4,031.59 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4,152.54 | ↑ +28% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4,152.54 | ↑ +28% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $4,192.86 | ↑ +30% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4,233.17 | ↑ +31% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4,233.17 | ↑ +31% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4,434.75 | ↑ +37% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5,224.69 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | HMO | $5,629.03 | ↑ +74% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $6,074.84 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $6,074.84 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $6,390.31 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $6,439.65 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $6,471.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $12,737.51 | ↑ +294% |
| Premera | Prime | $13,024.12 | ↑ +303% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $16,006.94 | ↑ +395% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $17,711.49 | ↑ +447% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $17,711.49 | ↑ +447% |
| Regence | RealValue | $18,217.54 | ↑ +463% |
| Regence | Commercial | $20,241.71 | ↑ +526% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $20,477.54 | ↑ +533% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $23,594.19 | ↑ +629% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $25,208.27 | ↑ +679% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $33,161.08 | ↑ +925% |
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Cystoscopy removal of clots at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,235.60 | $1,108.20 – $16,920.72 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $8,720.81 – $8,720.81 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $5,595.10 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,269.20 | $3,928.04 – $9,996.87 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $6,333.08 | $4,081.89 – $17,658.46 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $5,609.10 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $5,609.80 | $3,089.07 – $7,266.88 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $4,942.00 | $477.32 – $11,198.78 |