Pt re-evaluation patient/family at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$78.40
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.
$196.00
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.
$40.66 with Molina vs $554.40 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 | $40.66 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $43.91 | ↓ -44% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $43.91 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $43.91 | ↓ -44% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $43.91 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $60.32 | ↓ -23% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $68.28 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $70.32 | ↓ -10% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $70.32 | ↓ -10% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $71.01 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $71.69 | ↓ -9% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $71.69 | ↓ -9% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $75.10 | ↓ -4% |
| Premera | HMO | $114.02 | ↑ +45% |
| Premera | Prime | $125.82 | ↑ +60% |
| Premera | Signature | $125.82 | ↑ +60% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $126.60 | ↑ +61% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $128.08 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $141.71 | ↑ +81% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $144.34 | ↑ +84% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $147.20 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $147.20 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $153.78 | ↑ +96% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $154.84 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $156.04 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $156.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $200.88 | ↑ +156% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $200.88 | ↑ +156% |
| Regence | RealValue | $206.62 | ↑ +164% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $226.10 | ↑ +188% |
| Regence | Commercial | $229.58 | ↑ +193% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $554.40 | ↑ +607% |
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Pt re-evaluation patient/family at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $78.40 | $40.66 – $326.37 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $123.19 | $69.67 – $76.64 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $52.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $124.80 | $55.74 – $211.66 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $287.70 | $69.67 – $177.31 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $124.80 | $55.74 – $180.81 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $124.80 | $55.74 – $154.67 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $188.80 | not published |