Exome sequence analysis at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$4,939.20
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.
$12,348.00
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.
$285.49 with WellPoint vs $37,080.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $285.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $285.49 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $899.31 | ↓ -82% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,013.50 | ↓ -79% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $7,975.57 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $9,273.35 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $9,273.35 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $9,754.92 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,830.24 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $9,878.40 | ↑ +100% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $11,760.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Premera | Signature | $12,000.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Premera | HMO | $12,000.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Premera | Prime | $12,000.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $12,075.00 | ↑ +144% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $12,075.00 | ↑ +144% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $12,112.80 | ↑ +145% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $12,112.80 | ↑ +145% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $12,230.40 | ↑ +148% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $12,348.00 | ↑ +150% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $12,348.00 | ↑ +150% |
| Regence | RealValue | $12,420.00 | ↑ +151% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $12,936.00 | ↑ +162% |
| Regence | Commercial | $13,800.00 | ↑ +179% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $13,800.00 | ↑ +179% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $14,400.00 | ↑ +192% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $15,000.00 | ↑ +204% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $37,080.00 | ↑ +651% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Exome sequence analysis at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $4,939.20 | $286.92 – $23,520.00 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $4,939.20 | $280.33 – $23,520.00 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $4,939.20 | $286.81 – $23,520.00 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $18,176.40 | $8,400.00 – $37,508.40 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $4,939.20 | $301.68 – $21,756.00 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $4,939.20 | $280.33 – $23,520.00 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $12,000.00 – $13,200.00 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $10,800.00 – $36,456.00 |