Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$872.40
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.
$2,181.00
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.
$675.91 with Molina vs $18,052.00 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 | $675.91 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $729.98 | ↓ -16% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $729.98 | ↓ -16% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $729.98 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $729.98 | ↓ -16% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,408.71 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,637.93 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,637.93 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,722.99 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,736.29 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,744.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,129.12 | ↑ +144% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,194.69 | ↑ +152% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,260.54 | ↑ +159% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,260.54 | ↑ +159% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $2,282.48 | ↑ +162% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,304.43 | ↑ +164% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,304.43 | ↑ +164% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,399.49 | ↑ +175% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,414.16 | ↑ +177% |
| Premera | HMO | $3,058.68 | ↑ +251% |
| Premera | Signature | $6,952.41 | ↑ +697% |
| Premera | Prime | $7,108.85 | ↑ +715% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8,736.94 | ↑ +901% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $9,667.32 | ↑ +1008% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $9,667.32 | ↑ +1008% |
| Regence | RealValue | $9,943.52 | ↑ +1040% |
| Regence | Commercial | $11,048.36 | ↑ +1166% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $11,177.08 | ↑ +1181% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $12,977.20 | ↑ +1388% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $13,697.61 | ↑ +1470% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $18,052.00 | ↑ +1969% |
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Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $677.61 | $1,473.07 – $1,912.27 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $872.40 | $679.30 – $9,211.19 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $902.97 | $1,288.94 – $8,208.11 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $624.74 | $879.75 – $1,841.34 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $622.27 | $1,473.07 – $1,912.27 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $872.40 | $663.68 – $9,211.19 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $872.40 | $679.03 – $9,211.19 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $722.96 | $347.81 – $1,841.34 |