Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous ultrasound guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$1,463.60
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.
$3,659.00
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.
$580.50 with Molina vs $6,661.69 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 | $580.50 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $626.94 | ↓ -57% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $626.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $626.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $626.94 | ↓ -57% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $809.91 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $834.20 | ↓ -43% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $834.20 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $842.30 | ↓ -42% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $850.40 | ↓ -42% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $850.40 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $890.90 | ↓ -39% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,215.75 | ↓ -17% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,828.57 | ↑ +25% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $2,060.77 | ↑ +41% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,363.35 | ↑ +61% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,570.68 | ↑ +76% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,628.52 | ↑ +80% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,747.91 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,747.91 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,890.61 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,912.93 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,927.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,230.51 | ↑ +121% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $3,574.53 | ↑ +144% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $3,574.53 | ↑ +144% |
| Regence | RealValue | $3,676.66 | ↑ +151% |
| Regence | Commercial | $4,085.17 | ↑ +179% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $4,132.77 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $4,813.20 | ↑ +229% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $5,104.15 | ↑ +249% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6,661.69 | ↑ +355% |
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Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous ultrasound guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,463.60 | $583.40 – $3,399.19 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $1,765.78 – $1,765.78 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,882.56 | $820.01 – $2,867.05 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,882.56 | $820.01 – $2,775.55 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,882.56 | $822.31 – $2,867.05 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,000.00 | not published |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,356.68 | $820.01 – $3,568.56 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $275.10 | not published |