I131 iodide cap, rx at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$33.20
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.
$83.00
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.
$23.59 with SCAN vs $1,136.60 with Ambetter — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $23.59 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $24.07 | ↓ -28% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $24.30 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $24.30 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $24.53 | ↓ -26% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $24.77 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $24.77 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $25.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Premera | HMO | $37.97 | ↑ +14% |
| Premera | Signature | $49.08 | ↑ +48% |
| Premera | Prime | $49.08 | ↑ +48% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $53.61 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $59.75 | ↑ +80% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $59.75 | ↑ +80% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $59.75 | ↑ +80% |
| Regence | RealValue | $61.46 | ↑ +85% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $62.33 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $62.33 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $65.57 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $66.08 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $66.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Commercial | $68.29 | ↑ +106% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $87.49 | ↑ +164% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $186.64 | ↑ +462% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $320.17 | ↑ +864% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $345.78 | ↑ +942% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $345.78 | ↑ +942% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $345.78 | ↑ +942% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $345.78 | ↑ +942% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $390.72 | ↑ +1077% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,008.53 | ↑ +2938% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,136.60 | ↑ +3323% |
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I131 iodide cap, rx at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $33.35 | $64.57 – $75.51 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $33.20 | $23.59 – $347.51 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $52.00 | $21.34 – $59.79 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $52.00 | $20.46 – $78.59 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $145.20 | $24.07 – $310.36 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $32.40 | $24.06 – $46.70 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $44.44 | $42.68 – $111.84 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $30.75 | $43.30 – $90.62 |