Design mlc device for imrt at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$980.40
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.
$2,451.00
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.
$135.34 with Molina vs $3,522.39 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 | $135.34 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $146.17 | ↓ -85% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $146.17 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $146.17 | ↓ -85% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $146.17 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $426.32 | ↓ -57% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $428.24 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $441.09 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $441.09 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $445.37 | ↓ -55% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $449.66 | ↓ -54% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $449.66 | ↓ -54% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $471.07 | ↓ -52% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $480.45 | ↓ -51% |
| Premera | HMO | $672.01 | ↓ -31% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,350.04 | ↑ +38% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,380.42 | ↑ +41% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,583.10 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,696.57 | ↑ +73% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,840.70 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,840.70 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,877.22 | ↑ +91% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,877.22 | ↑ +91% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,930.85 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,936.29 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,951.24 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,960.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,145.39 | ↑ +119% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,170.39 | ↑ +121% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,504.29 | ↑ +155% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,821.33 | ↑ +188% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,522.39 | ↑ +259% |
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Design mlc device for imrt at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $2,295.37 | $661.75 – $5,197.88 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $980.40 | $136.02 – $1,797.33 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,476.48 | $433.59 – $1,575.25 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,513.40 | $417.24 – $1,206.58 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,476.48 | $433.59 – $1,524.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,476.48 | $434.80 – $1,575.25 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $4,640.00 | $367.00 – $367.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,466.92 | $433.59 – $2,088.05 |