Drug assay rufinamide at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$20.00
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.
$50.00
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.
$7.41 with WellPoint vs $209.29 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 |
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| WellPoint | Apple Health | $7.41 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $7.41 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $8.01 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $8.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $8.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $23.35 | ↑ +17% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $25.84 | ↑ +29% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $26.32 | ↑ +32% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $26.57 | ↑ +33% |
| Premera | HMO | $27.11 | ↑ +36% |
| Premera | Prime | $27.11 | ↑ +36% |
| Premera | Signature | $27.11 | ↑ +36% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $27.28 | ↑ +36% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $27.28 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $27.36 | ↑ +37% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $27.36 | ↑ +37% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $27.63 | ↑ +38% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $27.90 | ↑ +40% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $27.90 | ↑ +40% |
| Regence | RealValue | $28.06 | ↑ +40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $29.22 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $30.04 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $30.04 | ↑ +50% |
| Regence | Commercial | $31.18 | ↑ +56% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $31.18 | ↑ +56% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $31.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $32.00 | ↑ +60% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $32.53 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $32.56 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $33.89 | ↑ +69% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $209.29 | ↑ +946% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Drug assay rufinamide at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $139.25 | $27.11 – $315.33 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $20.00 | $7.45 – $53.14 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $51.36 | $24.40 – $82.36 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $51.36 | $24.40 – $63.44 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $51.36 | $24.40 – $60.18 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $161.00 | $27.11 – $50.15 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $129.20 | $7.12 – $49.15 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $185.57 | $27.11 – $378.40 |