Removal cerclage without anes at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$158.00
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.
$395.00
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.
$231.23 with SCAN vs $1,901.93 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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| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $231.23 | ↑ +46% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $238.16 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $238.16 | ↑ +51% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $240.48 | ↑ +52% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $242.79 | ↑ +54% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $242.79 | ↑ +54% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $254.35 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $255.13 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $296.65 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $296.65 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $312.05 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $314.46 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $316.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | HMO | $333.69 | ↑ +111% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $459.89 | ↑ +191% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $496.68 | ↑ +214% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $496.68 | ↑ +214% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $496.68 | ↑ +214% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $496.68 | ↑ +214% |
| Premera | Signature | $728.08 | ↑ +361% |
| Premera | Prime | $744.47 | ↑ +371% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $914.97 | ↑ +479% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,012.38 | ↑ +541% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,012.38 | ↑ +541% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,041.31 | ↑ +559% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,157.01 | ↑ +632% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,170.49 | ↑ +641% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,376.22 | ↑ +771% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,400.99 | ↑ +787% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,448.66 | ↑ +817% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,632.61 | ↑ +933% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,901.93 | ↑ +1104% |
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Removal cerclage without anes at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $1,958.90 | $383.27 – $484.67 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $158.00 | $231.23 – $970.48 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $251.60 | $227.41 – $792.68 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $151.20 | $241.19 – $620.20 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $2,610.40 | $335.36 – $839.53 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,806.06 | $228.90 – $479.08 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $1,798.92 | $383.27 – $484.67 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $158.00 | $230.07 – $970.48 |