Tomosynthesis breast diagnostic left at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$46.00
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.
$115.00
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.
$35.55 with Premera vs $229.26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premera | Prime | $35.55 | ↓ -23% |
| Premera | Signature | $35.55 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $35.79 | ↓ -22% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $38.65 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $38.65 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $38.65 | ↓ -16% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $38.65 | ↓ -16% |
| Premera | HMO | $40.10 | ↓ -13% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $40.65 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $40.65 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $41.87 | ↓ -9% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $41.87 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $42.28 | ↓ -8% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $42.68 | ↓ -7% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $42.68 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $43.45 | ↓ -6% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $44.72 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $48.85 | ↑ +6% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $55.76 | ↑ +21% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $55.76 | ↑ +21% |
| Regence | RealValue | $57.35 | ↑ +25% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $59.42 | ↑ +29% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $62.76 | ↑ +36% |
| Regence | Commercial | $63.72 | ↑ +39% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $69.09 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $69.09 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $72.68 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $73.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $74.89 | ↑ +63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $112.72 | ↑ +145% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $127.04 | ↑ +176% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $229.26 | ↑ +398% |
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Tomosynthesis breast diagnostic left at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $106.61 | $24.14 – $154.42 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $46.00 | $21.12 – $134.96 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $46.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $145.44 | $10.70 – $48.00 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $145.44 | $10.70 – $75.79 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $145.44 | $10.70 – $48.00 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $56.00 | $16.00 – $16.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $156.52 | $13.37 – $105.98 |