Echo transthoracic at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,558.40
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.
$3,896.00
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.
$327.91 with Molina vs $5,140.40 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 | $327.91 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $354.15 | ↓ -77% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $354.15 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $354.15 | ↓ -77% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $354.15 | ↓ -77% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $624.95 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $643.69 | ↓ -59% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $643.69 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $649.94 | ↓ -58% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $656.19 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $656.19 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $687.44 | ↓ -56% |
| Premera | HMO | $942.53 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,032.93 | ↓ -34% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,164.10 | ↓ -25% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,013.27 | ↑ +29% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,015.67 | ↑ +29% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,061.02 | ↑ +32% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,340.87 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,340.87 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,462.43 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,493.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,533.04 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,537.24 | ↑ +63% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,802.79 | ↑ +80% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,802.79 | ↑ +80% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,882.87 | ↑ +85% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,203.19 | ↑ +106% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $3,240.51 | ↑ +108% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,750.89 | ↑ +141% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $3,957.12 | ↑ +154% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $5,140.40 | ↑ +230% |
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Echo transthoracic at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $826.18 | $1,368.97 – $3,000.99 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,558.40 | $329.56 – $2,622.93 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,248.80 | $632.74 – $2,263.43 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,850.80 | $608.89 – $1,733.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,248.80 | $632.74 – $2,191.19 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,248.80 | $634.52 – $2,263.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,717.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,058.70 | $488.84 – $1,126.45 |