Electrolyte panel at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$16.40
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.
$41.00
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.
$5.85 with Molina vs $54.12 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $5.85 | ↓ -64% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $5.85 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $6.32 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $6.32 | ↓ -61% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $6.32 | ↓ -61% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Premera | HMO | $7.01 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Signature | $7.01 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Prime | $7.01 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $7.05 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $7.05 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $7.08 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $7.08 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $7.14 | ↓ -56% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $7.21 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $7.21 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | RealValue | $7.26 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7.56 | ↓ -54% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $8.06 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | Commercial | $8.06 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -49% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8.76 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $18.43 | ↑ +12% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $20.77 | ↑ +27% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $21.31 | ↑ +30% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $24.78 | ↑ +51% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $24.78 | ↑ +51% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $26.07 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $26.40 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $26.86 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $54.12 | ↑ +230% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Electrolyte panel at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $32.91 | $7.01 – $74.52 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $16.40 | $5.88 – $13.74 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $78.12 | $7.01 – $7.71 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $42.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $41.76 | $6.31 – $32.95 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $51.80 | $7.01 – $25.24 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $41.76 | $6.31 – $31.90 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $41.76 | $6.31 – $32.95 |