Mopath procedure level 9 at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,343.20
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.
$3,358.00
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.
$285.49 with WellPoint vs $6,180.00 with Aetna — 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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| WellPoint | Apple Health | $285.49 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $285.49 | ↓ -79% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -77% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $308.33 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $899.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,013.50 | ↓ -25% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,734.89 | ↑ +29% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,960.00 | ↑ +46% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,000.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,000.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,000.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,012.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,012.50 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,017.19 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,017.19 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,018.80 | ↑ +50% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,018.80 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $2,038.40 | ↑ +52% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,058.00 | ↑ +53% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,058.00 | ↑ +53% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,070.00 | ↑ +54% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,121.94 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,148.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,156.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,186.40 | ↑ +63% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,300.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,300.00 | ↑ +71% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,400.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,500.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $6,180.00 | ↑ +360% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Mopath procedure level 9 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,343.20 | $286.92 – $3,920.00 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $5,537.28 | $1,800.00 – $6,076.00 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $5,537.28 | $1,800.00 – $6,000.00 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $5,537.28 | $1,800.00 – $4,440.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,948.10 | $2,000.00 – $3,700.00 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $2,608.90 | $2,000.00 – $3,700.00 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $1,198.80 | $274.06 – $3,626.00 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $1,536.00 | $1,999.20 – $3,660.00 |