Vital capacity test at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$88.80
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.
$222.00
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.
$36.78 with Molina vs $1,210.52 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 | $36.78 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $39.72 | ↓ -55% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $39.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $39.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $39.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $115.85 | ↑ +30% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $130.56 | ↑ +47% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $143.39 | ↑ +61% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $147.17 | ↑ +66% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $151.58 | ↑ +71% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $151.58 | ↑ +71% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $153.05 | ↑ +72% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $154.52 | ↑ +74% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $154.52 | ↑ +74% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $161.88 | ↑ +82% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $166.72 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $166.72 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $175.38 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $176.73 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $177.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | HMO | $272.43 | ↑ +207% |
| Premera | Signature | $570.73 | ↑ +543% |
| Premera | Prime | $583.57 | ↑ +557% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $717.22 | ↑ +708% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $793.60 | ↑ +794% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $793.60 | ↑ +794% |
| Regence | RealValue | $816.27 | ↑ +819% |
| Regence | Commercial | $906.97 | ↑ +921% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $917.54 | ↑ +933% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,070.31 | ↑ +1105% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,143.81 | ↑ +1188% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,210.52 | ↑ +1263% |
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Vital capacity test at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $110.94 | $179.09 – $395.70 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $88.80 | $36.96 – $673.34 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $250.74 | $143.39 – $157.72 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $85.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $467.52 | $149.00 – $650.25 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $518.00 | $143.39 – $498.06 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $467.52 | $149.00 – $629.49 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $467.52 | $149.42 – $650.25 |