Thyroid uptake measurement at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$412.00
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.
$1,030.00
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.
$271.16 with Molina vs $3,760.85 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 | $271.16 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $292.85 | ↓ -29% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $292.85 | ↓ -29% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $292.85 | ↓ -29% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $292.85 | ↓ -29% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $457.23 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $470.94 | ↑ +14% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $470.94 | ↑ +14% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $475.52 | ↑ +15% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $480.09 | ↑ +17% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $480.09 | ↑ +17% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $502.95 | ↑ +22% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $532.22 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $618.82 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $618.82 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $650.96 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $659.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $670.74 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | HMO | $728.14 | ↑ +77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $854.15 | ↑ +107% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $962.62 | ↑ +134% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,506.97 | ↑ +266% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,540.88 | ↑ +274% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,893.77 | ↑ +360% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,095.41 | ↑ +409% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,095.41 | ↑ +409% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,155.28 | ↑ +423% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,394.76 | ↑ +481% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,422.66 | ↑ +488% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,748.90 | ↑ +567% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $3,056.97 | ↑ +642% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,760.85 | ↑ +813% |
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Thyroid uptake measurement at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $345.22 | $750.47 – $1,057.56 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $412.00 | $272.52 – $1,919.01 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,200.00 | $462.93 – $1,730.21 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,610.00 | $445.48 – $1,325.27 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,200.00 | $462.93 – $1,674.99 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,200.00 | $300.19 – $1,730.21 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $730.10 | not published |