Genome sequence analysis at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,879.20
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.
$4,698.00
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 $8,373.75 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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| WellPoint | Apple Health | $285.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $285.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -84% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $899.31 | ↓ -52% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,013.50 | ↓ -46% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,427.29 | ↑ +29% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,655.75 | ↑ +41% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,709.95 | ↑ +44% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,709.95 | ↑ +44% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,709.95 | ↑ +44% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,726.89 | ↑ +45% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,726.89 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,735.42 | ↑ +46% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,735.42 | ↑ +46% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $2,761.98 | ↑ +47% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,788.54 | ↑ +48% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,788.54 | ↑ +48% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,804.80 | ↑ +49% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,822.26 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,822.26 | ↑ +50% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,921.33 | ↑ +55% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,968.82 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,006.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $3,059.01 | ↑ +63% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,116.44 | ↑ +66% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $3,116.44 | ↑ +66% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,251.94 | ↑ +73% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,387.44 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $8,373.75 | ↑ +346% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Genome sequence analysis at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,879.20 | $286.92 – $5,311.50 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,879.20 | $280.33 – $5,311.50 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,879.20 | $286.81 – $5,311.50 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $3,455.25 | $1,896.97 – $8,470.49 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,503.20 | $301.68 – $4,913.14 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,879.20 | $280.33 – $5,311.50 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $2,709.95 – $2,980.94 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $2,438.96 – $8,232.83 |