Encephalitis, western equine igg/igm at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$36.00
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.
$90.00
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.
$7.37 with Molina vs $101.83 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 | $7.37 | ↓ -80% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $7.37 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $7.96 | ↓ -78% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $7.96 | ↓ -78% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $7.96 | ↓ -78% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $12.93 | ↓ -64% |
| Premera | HMO | $13.19 | ↓ -63% |
| Premera | Signature | $13.19 | ↓ -63% |
| Premera | Prime | $13.19 | ↓ -63% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $13.27 | ↓ -63% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $13.27 | ↓ -63% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $13.31 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $13.31 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $13.44 | ↓ -63% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $13.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $13.57 | ↓ -62% |
| Regence | RealValue | $13.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $14.22 | ↓ -61% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $15.17 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | Commercial | $15.17 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15.83 | ↓ -56% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $16.49 | ↓ -54% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $23.21 | ↓ -36% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $26.16 | ↓ -27% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $46.50 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $54.07 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $54.07 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $56.88 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $57.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $58.61 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $101.83 | ↑ +183% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Encephalitis, western equine igg/igm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $36.00 | $7.41 – $25.85 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $58.56 | $11.87 – $61.99 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $58.56 | $11.87 – $60.01 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $58.56 | $11.87 – $61.99 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $59.20 | $10.00 – $10.00 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $58.56 | $13.19 – $59.36 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $38.50 | $13.19 – $24.40 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $16.80 | $7.07 – $23.91 |