Remove renal tube w/fluoro at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$356.00
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.
$890.00
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.
$268.52 with Molina vs $6,559.76 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 | $268.52 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $290.00 | ↓ -19% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $290.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $290.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $290.00 | ↓ -19% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $574.85 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $668.39 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $668.39 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $703.10 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $708.53 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $712.00 | ↑ +100% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $797.51 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $821.44 | ↑ +131% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $821.44 | ↑ +131% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $829.41 | ↑ +133% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $837.39 | ↑ +135% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $837.39 | ↑ +135% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $845.82 | ↑ +138% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $877.26 | ↑ +146% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $953.23 | ↑ +168% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,171.47 | ↑ +229% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,495.88 | ↑ +601% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,552.05 | ↑ +617% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,136.52 | ↑ +781% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $3,470.55 | ↑ +875% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $3,470.55 | ↑ +875% |
| Regence | RealValue | $3,569.71 | ↑ +903% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,966.34 | ↑ +1014% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $4,012.55 | ↑ +1027% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $4,566.09 | ↑ +1183% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $4,918.30 | ↑ +1282% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6,559.76 | ↑ +1743% |
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Remove renal tube w/fluoro at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $389.20 | $846.09 – $1,701.49 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $356.00 | $269.86 – $3,347.17 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,988.16 | $807.46 – $2,615.69 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,503.60 | $777.03 – $1,977.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,988.16 | $807.46 – $2,532.21 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,988.16 | $809.73 – $2,615.69 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,400.70 | $605.30 – $2,526.65 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,338.40 | $88.35 – $2,064.73 |