Idet single level at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,888.80
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.
$4,722.00
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.
$2,833.20 with Premera vs $11,674.04 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 |
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| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,833.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,833.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,833.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,833.20 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $3,049.94 | ↑ +61% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $3,288.46 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,414.01 | ↑ +81% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $3,546.22 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $3,546.22 | ↑ +88% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3,551.54 | ↑ +88% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3,551.54 | ↑ +88% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3,551.54 | ↑ +88% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3,551.54 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3,730.38 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $3,759.18 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,777.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $5,631.52 | ↑ +198% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $5,631.52 | ↑ +198% |
| Regence | RealValue | $5,792.42 | ↑ +207% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $6,338.51 | ↑ +236% |
| Regence | Commercial | $6,436.02 | ↑ +241% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $10,358.66 | ↑ +448% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $11,674.04 | ↑ +518% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Idet single level at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,888.80 | $2,133.15 – $3,569.32 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $2,437.89 – $3,336.84 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,888.80 | $2,133.15 – $3,487.28 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,888.80 | $2,133.15 – $3,567.91 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,888.80 | $2,264.31 – $5,147.97 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,888.80 | $2,133.15 – $3,487.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $7,277.00 – $7,277.00 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $18,229.00 – $24,207.00 |