2d tte w or without fol w/con,co at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,207.30
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.
$3,645.25
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.
$895.49 with SoundPath vs $3,940.16 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $895.49 | ↓ -26% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $895.49 | ↓ -26% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $904.44 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $922.35 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $922.35 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $922.35 | ↓ -24% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $928.37 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $958.17 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $967.13 | ↓ -20% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $967.13 | ↓ -20% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $976.08 | ↓ -19% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,029.81 | ↓ -15% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,719.34 | ↑ +42% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,773.07 | ↑ +47% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,790.98 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,853.46 | ↑ +54% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,978.83 | ↑ +64% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $2,015.51 | ↑ +67% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $2,217.21 | ↑ +84% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $2,269.03 | ↑ +88% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,624.58 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,679.36 | ↑ +122% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,733.94 | ↑ +126% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,825.70 | ↑ +134% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,883.66 | ↑ +139% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,974.46 | ↑ +146% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,974.46 | ↑ +146% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $3,349.13 | ↑ +177% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,940.16 | ↑ +226% |
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2d tte w or without fol w/con,co at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $327.91 – $5,826.00 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $329.56 – $3,762.98 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $752.50 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,443.40 | $873.56 – $2,450.95 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,243.20 | $873.56 – $2,293.09 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $1,039.48 | $892.73 – $2,859.44 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,608.83 | $2,296.51 – $3,491.15 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,113.10 | $1,567.46 – $3,280.73 |