Split blood or products at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$41.20
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.
$103.00
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.
$18.79 with WellPoint vs $1,602.78 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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| WellPoint | Apple Health | $18.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $18.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $20.30 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $20.30 | ↓ -51% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $20.30 | ↓ -51% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $52.96 | ↑ +29% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $59.20 | ↑ +44% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $61.58 | ↑ +49% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $61.58 | ↑ +49% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $64.78 | ↑ +57% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $65.60 | ↑ +59% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $66.71 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $66.75 | ↑ +62% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $194.86 | ↑ +373% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $200.70 | ↑ +387% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $200.70 | ↑ +387% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $202.65 | ↑ +392% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $204.60 | ↑ +397% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $204.60 | ↑ +397% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $214.34 | ↑ +420% |
| Premera | HMO | $294.59 | ↑ +615% |
| Premera | Signature | $624.07 | ↑ +1415% |
| Premera | Prime | $638.11 | ↑ +1449% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $784.26 | ↑ +1804% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $867.77 | ↑ +2006% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $867.77 | ↑ +2006% |
| Regence | RealValue | $892.56 | ↑ +2066% |
| Regence | Commercial | $991.74 | ↑ +2307% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,003.29 | ↑ +2335% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,172.30 | ↑ +2745% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,236.77 | ↑ +2902% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,602.78 | ↑ +3790% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Split blood or products at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $63.89 | $39.66 – $427.86 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $41.20 | $18.89 – $817.83 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $556.92 | $189.85 – $208.84 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $89.60 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $209.28 | $1.44 – $674.45 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $711.90 | $1.58 – $516.60 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $209.28 | $1.44 – $652.93 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $209.28 | $1.44 – $674.45 |