Fetal hemoglobin rosette at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$18.00
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.
$45.00
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.
$3.99 with Molina vs $72.26 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 | $3.99 | ↓ -78% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.99 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -76% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $9.17 | ↓ -49% |
| Premera | HMO | $9.36 | ↓ -48% |
| Premera | Signature | $9.36 | ↓ -48% |
| Premera | Prime | $9.36 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $9.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $9.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $9.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $9.45 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $9.54 | ↓ -47% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $9.63 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $9.63 | ↓ -47% |
| Regence | RealValue | $9.69 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $10.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $10.76 | ↓ -40% |
| Regence | Commercial | $10.76 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $11.23 | ↓ -38% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $11.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $12.57 | ↓ -30% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14.16 | ↓ -21% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $23.25 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $27.04 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $27.04 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $28.44 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $28.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $29.30 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $72.26 | ↑ +301% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Fetal hemoglobin rosette at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $18.35 | $9.36 – $41.55 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $18.00 | $4.01 – $18.35 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $63.63 | $9.36 – $10.30 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $126.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $46.56 | $8.42 – $43.99 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $70.70 | $9.36 – $33.70 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $46.56 | $8.42 – $42.59 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $46.56 | $8.42 – $43.99 |