Ua w/micro/comp poc at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$9.20
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.
$23.00
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.
$1.95 with Molina vs $31.03 with Aetna — 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 | $1.95 | ↓ -79% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1.95 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $2.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $2.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $2.10 | ↓ -77% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $3.94 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | HMO | $4.02 | ↓ -56% |
| Premera | Signature | $4.02 | ↓ -56% |
| Premera | Prime | $4.02 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $4.05 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $4.05 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $4.06 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $4.06 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $4.10 | ↓ -55% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $4.14 | ↓ -55% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $4.14 | ↓ -55% |
| Regence | RealValue | $4.16 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4.33 | ↓ -53% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $4.62 | ↓ -50% |
| Regence | Commercial | $4.62 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4.82 | ↓ -48% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $5.02 | ↓ -45% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $6.13 | ↓ -33% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $6.90 | ↓ -25% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $11.63 | ↑ +26% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $13.52 | ↑ +47% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $13.52 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $14.22 | ↑ +55% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $14.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $14.65 | ↑ +59% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $31.03 | ↑ +237% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Ua w/micro/comp poc at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $17.32 | $4.02 – $39.21 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $9.20 | $1.95 – $7.88 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $12.80 | $3.00 – $3.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $26.60 | $4.02 – $7.44 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $16.00 | $1.87 – $7.29 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $23.08 | $4.02 – $47.06 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $15.97 | $4.02 – $47.06 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $15.91 | $4.02 – $39.21 |