Rocker bottom, contact afo at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$59.60
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.
$149.00
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.
$96.24 with First Choice vs $876.16 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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| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $96.24 | ↑ +61% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $100.01 | ↑ +68% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $100.01 | ↑ +68% |
| Regence | RealValue | $102.87 | ↑ +73% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $111.90 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $111.90 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | Commercial | $114.30 | ↑ +92% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $114.30 | ↑ +92% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $116.99 | ↑ +96% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $117.71 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $118.62 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $119.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $120.50 | ↑ +102% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $120.50 | ↑ +102% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $121.67 | ↑ +104% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $122.84 | ↑ +106% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $122.84 | ↑ +106% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $128.69 | ↑ +116% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $143.26 | ↑ +140% |
| Premera | HMO | $178.24 | ↑ +199% |
| Premera | Signature | $205.74 | ↑ +245% |
| Premera | Prime | $205.74 | ↑ +245% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $251.46 | ↑ +322% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $361.65 | ↑ +507% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $876.16 | ↑ +1370% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Rocker bottom, contact afo at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $59.60 | $100.01 – $515.78 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $177.87 | $119.38 – $362.68 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $151.41 | $119.38 – $291.96 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $151.41 | $119.38 – $265.02 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $151.41 | $119.38 – $389.28 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $59.60 | $114.30 – $495.73 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $60.80 | $102.87 – $200.06 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $59.60 | $100.01 – $515.78 |