ER Visit (level 3) at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$702.00
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.
$1,755.00
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.
$312.21 with SCAN vs $2,568.01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $312.21 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $321.58 | ↓ -54% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $321.58 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $324.70 | ↓ -54% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $327.82 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $327.82 | ↓ -53% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $343.43 | ↓ -51% |
| Premera | HMO | $459.02 | ↓ -35% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,042.50 | ↑ +49% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,065.96 | ↑ +52% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,133.55 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,310.08 | ↑ +87% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,318.01 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,318.01 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,386.45 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,397.16 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,404.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,449.57 | ↑ +106% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,449.57 | ↑ +106% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,490.99 | ↑ +112% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,656.65 | ↑ +136% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,675.96 | ↑ +139% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,894.17 | ↑ +170% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,927.16 | ↑ +175% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,568.01 | ↑ +266% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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ER Visit (level 3) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $857.14 | $712.99 – $1,941.00 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $702.00 | $312.21 – $1,876.79 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $345.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $630.72 | $316.11 – $1,087.67 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $599.20 | $304.19 – $774.17 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $630.72 | $316.11 – $1,047.46 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $630.72 | $316.99 – $1,087.67 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,180.80 | $451.00 – $451.00 |