X-ray exam of salivary gland at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$236.40
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.
$591.00
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.
$40.46 with Molina vs $818.69 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 | $40.46 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $43.69 | ↓ -82% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $43.69 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $43.69 | ↓ -82% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $43.69 | ↓ -82% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $99.53 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $102.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $102.52 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $103.51 | ↓ -56% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $104.51 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $104.51 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $109.49 | ↓ -54% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $127.44 | ↓ -46% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $143.62 | ↓ -39% |
| Premera | HMO | $162.75 | ↓ -31% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $305.51 | ↑ +29% |
| Premera | Signature | $332.01 | ↑ +40% |
| Premera | Prime | $339.48 | ↑ +44% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $355.22 | ↑ +50% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $355.22 | ↑ +50% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $373.67 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $378.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $385.02 | ↑ +63% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $417.23 | ↑ +76% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $461.67 | ↑ +95% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $461.67 | ↑ +95% |
| Regence | RealValue | $474.86 | ↑ +101% |
| Regence | Commercial | $527.62 | ↑ +123% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $533.77 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $602.31 | ↑ +155% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $683.31 | ↑ +189% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $818.69 | ↑ +246% |
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X-ray exam of salivary gland at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $150.25 | $127.23 – $340.23 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $236.40 | $40.66 – $417.74 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $424.80 | $100.77 – $375.11 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $758.80 | $96.98 – $287.32 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $424.80 | $100.77 – $363.14 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $424.80 | $101.06 – $375.11 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $304.00 | $89.00 – $89.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $281.40 | not published |