Insert cath pleura without image at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$3,161.20
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.
$7,903.00
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.
$673.13 with Molina vs $18,052.00 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 | $673.13 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $726.98 | ↓ -77% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $726.98 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $726.98 | ↓ -77% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $726.98 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,120.36 | ↓ -33% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,194.69 | ↓ -31% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,260.54 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,260.54 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $2,282.48 | ↓ -28% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,304.43 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,304.43 | ↓ -27% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,389.62 | ↓ -24% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,414.16 | ↓ -24% |
| Premera | HMO | $3,058.68 | ↓ -3% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5,104.55 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $5,935.15 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $5,935.15 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $6,243.37 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $6,291.58 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $6,322.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $6,952.41 | ↑ +120% |
| Premera | Prime | $7,108.85 | ↑ +125% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8,736.94 | ↑ +176% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $9,667.32 | ↑ +206% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $9,667.32 | ↑ +206% |
| Regence | RealValue | $9,943.52 | ↑ +215% |
| Regence | Commercial | $11,048.36 | ↑ +249% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $11,177.08 | ↑ +254% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $12,977.20 | ↑ +311% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $13,697.61 | ↑ +333% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $18,052.00 | ↑ +471% |
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Insert cath pleura without image at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $1,072.87 | $2,332.33 – $4,738.69 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,161.20 | $676.50 – $9,211.19 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $479.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,718.40 | $2,222.08 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,064.30 | $2,138.32 – $5,442.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,718.40 | $2,222.08 – $7,304.21 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,718.40 | $2,228.31 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $2,192.84 | $2,222.08 – $9,110.79 |