Cytopath smear other source at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$158.40
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.
$396.00
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.
$28.04 with Molina vs $490.24 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 | $28.04 | ↓ -82% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $28.04 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $30.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $30.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $30.28 | ↓ -81% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $59.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $61.39 | ↓ -61% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $61.39 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $61.98 | ↓ -61% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $62.58 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $62.58 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $65.56 | ↓ -59% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $88.32 | ↓ -44% |
| Premera | HMO | $93.92 | ↓ -41% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $99.54 | ↓ -37% |
| Premera | Signature | $197.97 | ↑ +25% |
| Premera | Prime | $202.43 | ↑ +28% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $204.75 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $238.07 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $238.07 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $248.79 | ↑ +57% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $250.43 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $253.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $258.04 | ↑ +63% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $275.30 | ↑ +74% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $275.30 | ↑ +74% |
| Regence | RealValue | $283.17 | ↑ +79% |
| Regence | Commercial | $314.63 | ↑ +99% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $318.30 | ↑ +101% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $365.51 | ↑ +131% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $394.35 | ↑ +149% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $490.24 | ↑ +209% |
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Cytopath smear other source at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $158.40 | $28.18 – $250.15 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $46.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $79.68 | $60.34 – $232.51 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $142.10 | $58.07 – $178.09 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $79.68 | $60.34 – $225.09 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $79.68 | $60.51 – $232.51 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $788.80 | $54.00 – $54.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $73.50 | not published |