Cytopath tbs c/v manual at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$30.40
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.
$76.00
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.
$12.21 with WellPoint vs $140.43 with Aetna — 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 | $12.21 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $12.21 | ↓ -60% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $13.19 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $13.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $13.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | HMO | $17.31 | ↓ -43% |
| Premera | Prime | $17.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Premera | Signature | $17.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $17.87 | ↓ -41% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $17.87 | ↓ -41% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $18.17 | ↓ -40% |
| Regence | RealValue | $18.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $18.71 | ↓ -38% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $18.71 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $18.90 | ↓ -38% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $19.08 | ↓ -37% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $19.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $19.99 | ↓ -34% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $20.42 | ↓ -33% |
| Regence | Commercial | $20.42 | ↓ -33% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $22.20 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $22.25 | ↓ -27% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $38.46 | ↑ +27% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $39.40 | ↑ +30% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $43.34 | ↑ +43% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $45.81 | ↑ +51% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $45.81 | ↑ +51% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $48.19 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $48.80 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $49.65 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $140.43 | ↑ +362% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Cytopath tbs c/v manual at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $34.29 | $18.19 – $77.64 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $30.40 | $12.27 – $36.34 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $29.61 | $18.54 – $20.39 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $39.90 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $90.30 | $18.54 – $54.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $94.40 | $22.00 – $22.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $41.30 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $135.80 | $18.54 – $59.12 |