Platelet automated at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$11.60
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.
$29.00
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.
$3.99 with Molina vs $34.59 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $3.99 | ↓ -66% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.99 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -63% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4.31 | ↓ -63% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4.39 | ↓ -62% |
| Premera | HMO | $4.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Premera | Signature | $4.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Premera | Prime | $4.48 | ↓ -61% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $4.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $4.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4.52 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4.52 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $4.57 | ↓ -61% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4.61 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4.61 | ↓ -60% |
| Regence | RealValue | $4.64 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4.83 | ↓ -58% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $5.15 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | Commercial | $5.15 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $5.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $5.60 | ↓ -52% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $12.57 | ↑ +8% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $14.16 | ↑ +22% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $14.86 | ↑ +28% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $17.27 | ↑ +49% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $17.27 | ↑ +49% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $18.17 | ↑ +57% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $18.40 | ↑ +59% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $18.72 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $34.59 | ↑ +198% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Platelet automated at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $16.46 | $4.48 – $37.27 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $11.60 | $4.01 – $8.78 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $53.55 | $4.48 – $4.93 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $53.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $31.68 | $4.03 – $21.06 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $59.50 | $4.48 – $16.13 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $31.68 | $4.03 – $20.38 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $31.68 | $4.03 – $21.06 |