Echo guide for artery repair at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$719.60
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.
$1,799.00
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.
$127.04 with Molina vs $2,202.67 with Kaiser — 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 | $127.04 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $137.20 | ↓ -81% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $137.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $137.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $137.20 | ↓ -81% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $246.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $254.36 | ↓ -65% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $254.36 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $256.83 | ↓ -64% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $259.30 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $259.30 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $271.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $400.17 | ↓ -44% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $450.99 | ↓ -37% |
| Premera | HMO | $524.65 | ↓ -27% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $929.45 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,080.69 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,080.69 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,136.81 | ↑ +58% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,146.85 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,151.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,171.35 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,172.65 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,441.21 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,594.66 | ↑ +122% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,594.66 | ↑ +122% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,640.22 | ↑ +128% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,822.47 | ↑ +153% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,843.70 | ↑ +156% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,031.31 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,130.24 | ↑ +196% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,202.67 | ↑ +206% |
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Echo guide for artery repair at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $552.47 | $509.65 – $1,251.06 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $719.60 | $127.67 – $1,296.68 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $783.36 | $250.04 – $1,189.57 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $582.40 | $240.61 – $911.16 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $783.36 | $250.04 – $1,151.61 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $783.36 | $250.74 – $1,189.57 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,070.40 | $312.00 – $312.00 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $952.70 | $240.61 – $989.62 |