Unlisted px abdomen muscskel at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$2,210.80
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.
$5,527.00
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.
$282.12 with SCAN vs $4,421.60 with Multiplan/PHCS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $282.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $290.58 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $290.58 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $293.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $296.22 | ↓ -87% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $296.22 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $310.33 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $313.91 | ↓ -86% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $339.03 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $339.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $339.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $339.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Premera | HMO | $387.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Premera | Signature | $861.62 | ↓ -61% |
| Premera | Prime | $881.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $988.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,082.77 | ↓ -51% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,114.39 | ↓ -50% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,198.10 | ↓ -46% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,198.10 | ↓ -46% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,232.33 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,369.26 | ↓ -38% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,385.21 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,628.13 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,641.02 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,320.54 | ↑ +5% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $3,569.89 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $4,150.78 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $4,150.78 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $4,366.33 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $4,400.04 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $4,421.60 | ↑ +100% |
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Unlisted px abdomen muscskel at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $2,210.80 | $282.12 – $1,184.07 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | not published | $563.25 – $563.25 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $302.80 | $277.46 – $921.19 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $2,210.80 | $280.71 – $1,184.07 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $2,210.80 | $282.12 – $1,184.07 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $2,869.26 | $182.91 – $778.80 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $2,210.80 | $279.93 – $1,276.21 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $2,210.80 | $280.71 – $1,184.07 |