Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,946.40
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.
$4,866.00
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.
$87.67 with Molina vs $2,060.01 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 | $87.67 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $94.68 | ↓ -95% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $94.68 | ↓ -95% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $94.68 | ↓ -95% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $94.68 | ↓ -95% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $156.95 | ↓ -92% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $182.49 | ↓ -91% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $182.49 | ↓ -91% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $191.97 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $193.45 | ↓ -90% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $194.40 | ↓ -90% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $250.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $257.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $257.96 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $260.47 | ↓ -87% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $262.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $262.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $275.49 | ↓ -86% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $276.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $311.22 | ↓ -84% |
| Premera | HMO | $358.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Premera | Signature | $779.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Premera | Prime | $796.85 | ↓ -59% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $979.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,083.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,083.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,114.58 | ↓ -43% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,238.42 | ↓ -36% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,252.85 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,391.41 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,506.15 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,060.01 | ↑ +6% |
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Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $512.73 | $406.00 – $1,161.07 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,946.40 | $88.11 – $1,051.14 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $170.66 | $244.02 – $268.42 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $339.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,015.20 | $253.57 – $864.61 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,142.40 | $244.02 – $662.26 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,015.20 | $253.57 – $837.02 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,015.20 | $254.28 – $864.61 |