Ventilator initial day at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$3,034.80
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.
$7,587.00
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.
$454.82 with Molina vs $5,811.86 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 | $454.82 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $491.20 | ↓ -84% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $491.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $491.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $491.20 | ↓ -84% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $706.58 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $727.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $727.78 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $734.84 | ↓ -76% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $741.91 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $741.91 | ↓ -76% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $777.24 | ↓ -74% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,042.93 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,432.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,614.60 | ↓ -47% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,046.21 | ↓ -33% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,289.67 | ↓ -25% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,341.19 | ↓ -23% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,379.17 | ↓ -22% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $2,379.17 | ↓ -22% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,502.72 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,522.04 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,534.40 | ↓ -16% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,877.38 | ↓ -5% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $3,183.78 | ↑ +5% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $3,183.78 | ↑ +5% |
| Regence | RealValue | $3,274.74 | ↑ +8% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,638.61 | ↑ +20% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $3,681.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $4,378.60 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $4,522.54 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $5,811.86 | ↑ +92% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Ventilator initial day at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $2,966.08 | $1,112.82 – $5,136.31 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,034.80 | $457.10 – $2,965.55 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,566.53 | $688.43 – $757.27 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,180.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,136.48 | $715.39 – $2,183.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,877.70 | $688.43 – $1,752.05 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,136.48 | $715.39 – $2,113.61 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,136.48 | $717.40 – $2,183.29 |