Platelets leukocytes reduced each unit at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$279.60
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.
$699.00
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.
$105.11 with Molina vs $1,328.37 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 | $105.11 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $113.52 | ↓ -59% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $113.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $113.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $113.52 | ↓ -59% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $161.50 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $166.34 | ↓ -41% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $166.34 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $167.96 | ↓ -40% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $169.57 | ↓ -39% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $169.57 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $177.64 | ↓ -36% |
| Premera | HMO | $245.21 | ↓ -12% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $331.10 | ↑ +18% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $361.06 | ↑ +29% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $373.14 | ↑ +33% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $419.81 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $419.81 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $441.61 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $447.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $455.03 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Signature | $501.90 | ↑ +80% |
| Premera | Prime | $513.19 | ↑ +84% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $630.72 | ↑ +126% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $697.88 | ↑ +150% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $697.88 | ↑ +150% |
| Regence | RealValue | $717.82 | ↑ +157% |
| Regence | Commercial | $797.58 | ↑ +185% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $806.88 | ↑ +189% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $860.41 | ↑ +208% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,029.45 | ↑ +268% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,328.37 | ↑ +375% |
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Platelets leukocytes reduced each unit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $94.41 | $205.23 – $356.14 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $279.60 | $105.64 – $677.81 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $273.70 | $144.26 – $158.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $128.16 | $144.26 – $562.26 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $273.70 | $144.26 – $454.86 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $128.16 | $144.26 – $530.67 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $128.16 | $144.26 – $562.26 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $128.16 | $144.26 – $518.04 |