Liver imaging at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,229.20
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.
$3,073.00
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.
$621.01 with SCAN vs $5,107.99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $621.01 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $639.64 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $639.64 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $645.85 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $652.06 | ↓ -47% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $652.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $681.37 | ↓ -45% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $683.11 | ↓ -44% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $735.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Premera | HMO | $945.10 | ↓ -23% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,587.62 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,845.96 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,845.96 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,941.82 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,966.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,974.89 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,000.81 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,019.32 | ↑ +64% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,146.32 | ↑ +75% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,418.87 | ↑ +97% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,481.79 | ↑ +102% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,746.06 | ↑ +123% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,746.06 | ↑ +123% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,824.51 | ↑ +130% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,138.35 | ↑ +155% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $3,174.91 | ↑ +158% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,682.27 | ↑ +200% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $3,967.89 | ↑ +223% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $5,107.99 | ↑ +316% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Liver imaging at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $847.74 | $1,372.69 – $2,686.06 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,229.20 | $621.01 – $4,288.30 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $628.75 – $5,979.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $7,791.00 | $605.06 – $4,579.88 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $628.75 – $5,788.46 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,099.68 | $630.52 – $5,979.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,848.00 | $539.00 – $539.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $585.90 | not published |