Implant neuroelectrodes at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$13,896.00
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.
$34,740.00
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.
$4,191.98 with Molina vs $59,953.64 with United Healthcare — 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 | $4,191.98 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4,527.34 | ↓ -67% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $4,527.34 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4,527.34 | ↓ -67% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4,527.34 | ↓ -67% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $7,288.93 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $7,507.59 | ↓ -46% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $7,507.59 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $7,580.48 | ↓ -45% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $7,653.37 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $7,653.37 | ↓ -45% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $8,017.82 | ↓ -42% |
| Premera | HMO | $12,371.27 | ↓ -11% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $13,204.73 | ↓ -5% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14,881.53 | ↑ +7% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $22,438.57 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Signature | $24,988.43 | ↑ +80% |
| Premera | Prime | $25,550.71 | ↑ +84% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $26,089.74 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $26,089.74 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $27,444.60 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $27,656.51 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $27,792.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $31,402.40 | ↑ +126% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $34,746.43 | ↑ +150% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $34,746.43 | ↑ +150% |
| Regence | RealValue | $35,739.19 | ↑ +157% |
| Regence | Commercial | $39,710.21 | ↑ +186% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $40,172.87 | ↑ +189% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $44,896.43 | ↑ +223% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $51,939.28 | ↑ +274% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $59,953.64 | ↑ +331% |
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Implant neuroelectrodes at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $2,709.69 | $5,890.66 – $23,104.88 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $13,896.00 | $4,212.96 – $30,591.85 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $10,020.00 | $7,277.00 – $30,131.32 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $10,020.00 | $7,277.00 – $29,017.64 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $10,020.00 | $7,277.00 – $30,131.32 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $9,540.00 | $7,602.89 – $21,285.92 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $3,610.88 | $5,154.33 – $31,123.95 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $2,498.26 | $3,518.04 – $24,532.20 |