Pet image w/ct lmtd at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$4,487.60
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.
$11,219.00
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.
$925.18 with Molina vs $13,452.18 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 | $925.18 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $999.20 | ↓ -78% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $999.20 | ↓ -78% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $999.20 | ↓ -78% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $999.20 | ↓ -78% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $1,635.46 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,684.53 | ↓ -62% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,684.53 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $1,700.88 | ↓ -62% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,717.23 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $1,717.23 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,799.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Premera | HMO | $2,790.06 | ↓ -38% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $2,914.33 | ↓ -35% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $3,284.40 | ↓ -27% |
| Premera | Signature | $5,716.10 | ↑ +27% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5,796.95 | ↑ +29% |
| Premera | Prime | $5,844.72 | ↑ +30% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $6,740.23 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $6,740.23 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $7,090.25 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $7,180.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $7,183.29 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7,305.65 | ↑ +63% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $7,948.25 | ↑ +77% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $7,948.25 | ↑ +77% |
| Regence | RealValue | $8,175.34 | ↑ +82% |
| Regence | Commercial | $9,083.72 | ↑ +102% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9,189.55 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $9,978.14 | ↑ +122% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $11,713.74 | ↑ +161% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $13,452.18 | ↑ +200% |
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Pet image w/ct lmtd at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $3,264.16 | $3,075.87 – $7,391.72 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $4,487.60 | $929.81 – $6,895.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $5,427.36 | $1,655.87 – $6,782.52 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $13,110.30 | $1,593.45 – $5,195.12 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $5,427.36 | $1,655.87 – $6,566.06 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $5,427.36 | $369.60 – $6,782.52 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $4,480.00 | $1,459.00 – $1,459.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $2,261.70 | not published |