Ghs st - re-eval for alt comm at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$194.80
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.
$487.00
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.
$41.96 with Molina vs $570.37 with Kaiser — 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 | $41.96 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $45.32 | ↓ -77% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $45.32 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $45.32 | ↓ -77% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $45.32 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $67.51 | ↓ -65% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $71.62 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $73.77 | ↓ -62% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $73.77 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $74.48 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $75.20 | ↓ -61% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $75.20 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $78.78 | ↓ -60% |
| Premera | HMO | $116.98 | ↓ -40% |
| Premera | Prime | $130.01 | ↓ -33% |
| Premera | Signature | $130.01 | ↓ -33% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $132.17 | ↓ -32% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $148.96 | ↓ -24% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $158.91 | ↓ -18% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $208.56 | ↑ +7% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $208.56 | ↑ +7% |
| Regence | RealValue | $214.52 | ↑ +10% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $234.75 | ↑ +21% |
| Regence | Commercial | $238.36 | ↑ +22% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $314.55 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $352.10 | ↑ +81% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $365.74 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $365.74 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $384.73 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $387.70 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $389.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $570.37 | ↑ +193% |
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Ghs st - re-eval for alt comm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $194.80 | $41.96 – $335.77 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $281.61 | $79.75 – $87.72 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $239.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $120.48 | $63.80 – $242.28 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $354.20 | $79.75 – $202.96 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $120.48 | $63.80 – $225.20 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $120.48 | $63.80 – $177.04 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $239.40 | not published |