Suspension sleeve lower ext at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$75.60
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.
$189.00
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.
$122.08 with First Choice vs $1,114.55 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 | $122.08 | ↑ +61% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $127.22 | ↑ +68% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $127.22 | ↑ +68% |
| Regence | RealValue | $130.85 | ↑ +73% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $141.94 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $141.94 | ↑ +88% |
| Regence | Commercial | $145.39 | ↑ +92% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $145.39 | ↑ +92% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $148.82 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $149.31 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $150.46 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $151.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $153.29 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $153.29 | ↑ +103% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $154.78 | ↑ +105% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $156.26 | ↑ +107% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $156.26 | ↑ +107% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $163.71 | ↑ +117% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $182.23 | ↑ +141% |
| Premera | HMO | $226.74 | ↑ +200% |
| Premera | Signature | $261.70 | ↑ +246% |
| Premera | Prime | $261.70 | ↑ +246% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $319.86 | ↑ +323% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $460.04 | ↑ +509% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,114.55 | ↑ +1374% |
| 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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Suspension sleeve lower ext at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $75.60 | $127.22 – $656.12 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $75.60 | $145.39 – $630.61 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $77.60 | $130.85 – $254.49 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $75.60 | $127.22 – $656.12 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $75.60 | $127.22 – $656.12 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $75.60 | $130.85 – $275.32 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $75.60 | $127.22 – $656.12 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $151.86 – $167.05 |