Influenza virus vaccine, live trivalent intranasal at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$18.00
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.
$45.00
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.
$10.62 with SCAN vs $67.89 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 | $10.62 | ↓ -41% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $10.94 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $10.94 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $11.07 | ↓ -39% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $11.16 | ↓ -38% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $11.16 | ↓ -38% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $11.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $19.12 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $20.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $20.65 | ↑ +15% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $20.65 | ↑ +15% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $20.65 | ↑ +15% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $20.65 | ↑ +15% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $27.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Prime | $27.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | HMO | $27.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Premera | Signature | $27.00 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $29.07 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $32.54 | ↑ +81% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $33.80 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $33.80 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $35.55 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $35.82 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $36.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $49.03 | ↑ +172% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $49.03 | ↑ +172% |
| Regence | RealValue | $50.43 | ↑ +180% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $55.18 | ↑ +207% |
| Regence | Commercial | $56.03 | ↑ +211% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $60.24 | ↑ +235% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $67.89 | ↑ +277% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Influenza virus vaccine, live trivalent intranasal at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $28.18 | $89.08 – $89.08 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $18.00 | $19.71 – $39.90 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $18.00 | $18.57 – $39.90 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $86.61 – $86.61 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | not published | $33.96 – $86.61 |