Cytopath smear oth prep screen & interp at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$65.60
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.
$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.
$6.79 with WellPoint vs $272.05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $6.79 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $6.79 | ↓ -90% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $21.38 | ↓ -67% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $24.09 | ↓ -63% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $33.08 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $34.07 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $34.07 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $34.40 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $34.73 | ↓ -47% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $34.73 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $36.39 | ↓ -45% |
| Premera | HMO | $46.75 | ↓ -29% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $84.61 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $98.38 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $98.38 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $103.49 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $104.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $106.63 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Signature | $108.80 | ↑ +66% |
| Premera | Prime | $111.25 | ↑ +70% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $136.73 | ↑ +108% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $151.28 | ↑ +131% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $151.28 | ↑ +131% |
| Regence | RealValue | $155.60 | ↑ +137% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $167.57 | ↑ +155% |
| Regence | Commercial | $172.89 | ↑ +164% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $174.90 | ↑ +167% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $196.31 | ↑ +199% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $272.05 | ↑ +315% |
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Cytopath smear oth prep screen & interp at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $81.62 | $59.10 – $184.82 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $65.60 | $6.82 – $138.82 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $35.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $76.80 | $33.49 – $108.05 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $76.80 | $33.49 – $104.60 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $76.80 | $33.59 – $108.05 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $497.60 | $25.00 – $25.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $80.50 | not published |