Transcath biopsy at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$3,668.00
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.
$9,170.00
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.
$2,527.02 with Molina vs $52,347.59 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 | $2,527.02 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2,729.18 | ↓ -26% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $2,729.18 | ↓ -26% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2,729.18 | ↓ -26% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2,729.18 | ↓ -26% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5,922.90 | ↑ +61% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6,364.22 | ↑ +74% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6,555.15 | ↑ +79% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6,555.15 | ↑ +79% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $6,618.79 | ↑ +80% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $6,682.43 | ↑ +82% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $6,682.43 | ↑ +82% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $6,886.67 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $6,886.67 | ↑ +88% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7,000.64 | ↑ +91% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $7,244.30 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7,300.24 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $7,336.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $7,960.12 | ↑ +117% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $8,970.93 | ↑ +145% |
| Premera | HMO | $9,628.52 | ↑ +163% |
| Premera | Signature | $20,078.56 | ↑ +447% |
| Premera | Prime | $20,530.36 | ↑ +460% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $25,232.27 | ↑ +588% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $27,919.23 | ↑ +661% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $27,919.23 | ↑ +661% |
| Regence | RealValue | $28,716.93 | ↑ +683% |
| Regence | Commercial | $31,907.70 | ↑ +770% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $32,279.45 | ↑ +780% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $36,980.09 | ↑ +908% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $40,424.21 | ↑ +1002% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $52,347.59 | ↑ +1327% |
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Transcath biopsy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $1,876.15 | $4,078.60 – $13,984.77 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,668.00 | $2,539.67 – $26,710.80 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $13,631.52 | $6,443.62 – $22,383.45 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $4,680.90 | $6,022.00 – $15,780.92 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $13,631.52 | $6,443.62 – $21,556.13 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $13,631.52 | $6,461.70 – $22,383.45 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $5,451.60 | $356.27 – $17,051.86 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $4,898.60 | $3,313.00 – $16,276.98 |