Laryngoscopy telescopic at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,204.40
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.
$3,011.00
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.
$447.33 with SCAN vs $3,679.46 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.
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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 | $447.33 | ↓ -63% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $460.75 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $460.75 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $465.22 | ↓ -61% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $469.70 | ↓ -61% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $469.70 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $492.06 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $537.16 | ↓ -55% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $580.13 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $580.13 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $580.13 | ↓ -52% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $580.13 | ↓ -52% |
| Premera | HMO | $706.51 | ↓ -41% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,491.92 | ↑ +24% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,525.49 | ↑ +27% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,692.06 | ↑ +40% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,874.86 | ↑ +56% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,906.92 | ↑ +58% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,944.80 | ↑ +61% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,074.51 | ↑ +72% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,074.51 | ↑ +72% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,133.78 | ↑ +77% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,261.26 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,261.26 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,370.87 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,378.69 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,397.06 | ↑ +99% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,398.49 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,408.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,656.43 | ↑ +121% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $2,966.21 | ↑ +146% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,679.46 | ↑ +206% |
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Laryngoscopy telescopic at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,204.40 | $447.33 – $1,877.47 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $1,026.16 – $1,026.16 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,155.00 | $435.84 – $6,462.00 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,204.40 | $445.10 – $1,877.47 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,204.40 | $447.33 – $1,877.47 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $749.70 | $5.78 – $559.57 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,204.40 | $443.85 – $2,023.56 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $1,204.40 | $445.10 – $1,877.47 |