Ot re-evaluation patient/family at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$90.80
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.
$227.00
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.
$40.84 with Molina vs $551.73 with Kaiser — 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 | $40.84 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $44.11 | ↓ -51% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $44.11 | ↓ -51% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $44.11 | ↓ -51% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $44.11 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $61.71 | ↓ -32% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $69.31 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $71.38 | ↓ -21% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $71.38 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $72.08 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $72.77 | ↓ -20% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $72.77 | ↓ -20% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $76.24 | ↓ -16% |
| Premera | HMO | $113.47 | ↑ +25% |
| Premera | Prime | $126.43 | ↑ +39% |
| Premera | Signature | $126.43 | ↑ +39% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $128.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $144.98 | ↑ +60% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $146.62 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $154.53 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $164.12 | ↑ +81% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $170.48 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $170.48 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $179.33 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $180.71 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $181.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $201.84 | ↑ +122% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $201.84 | ↑ +122% |
| Regence | RealValue | $207.60 | ↑ +129% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $227.18 | ↑ +150% |
| Regence | Commercial | $230.67 | ↑ +154% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $551.73 | ↑ +508% |
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Ot re-evaluation patient/family at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $90.80 | $40.84 – $324.79 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $148.86 | $78.20 – $86.02 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $49.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $158.40 | $62.56 – $237.57 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $174.30 | $78.20 – $199.02 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $158.40 | $62.56 – $192.72 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $158.40 | $62.56 – $173.60 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $184.80 | not published |