Dialysis one evaluation at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$540.80
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.
$1,352.00
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.
$477.23 with SCAN vs $3,925.42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $477.23 | ↓ -12% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $491.55 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $491.55 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $496.32 | ↓ -8% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $501.09 | ↓ -7% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $501.09 | ↓ -7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $524.95 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $540.78 | ↓ -0% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $584.04 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $584.04 | ↑ +8% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $584.04 | ↑ +8% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $584.04 | ↑ +8% |
| Premera | HMO | $714.90 | ↑ +32% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $873.26 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,015.35 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,015.35 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,068.08 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,076.33 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,081.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,618.28 | ↑ +199% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,654.70 | ↑ +206% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,703.45 | ↑ +215% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,919.76 | ↑ +255% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,033.66 | ↑ +276% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,250.21 | ↑ +316% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,250.21 | ↑ +316% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,314.50 | ↑ +328% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,571.67 | ↑ +376% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,601.63 | ↑ +381% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,912.99 | ↑ +439% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $3,001.36 | ↑ +455% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,925.42 | ↑ +626% |
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Dialysis one evaluation at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $2,167.57 | $1,036.68 – $1,636.16 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $540.80 | $477.23 – $1,865.50 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,499.40 | $464.97 – $511.47 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $5,091.36 | $483.19 – $1,653.41 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,857.10 | $179.76 – $1,266.44 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $5,091.36 | $483.19 – $1,477.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $5,091.36 | $368.85 – $1,653.41 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,814.40 | $247.72 – $860.20 |