Acetone qualitative at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$31.13
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.
$93.99
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.
$4.52 with Kaiser vs $70.50 with MultiPlan — 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $4.66 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.66 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $4.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.84 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4.88 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.88 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4.93 | ↓ -84% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $5.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $5.20 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $5.42 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.42 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $5.42 | ↓ -83% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $6.78 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.78 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $8.20 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $8.68 | ↓ -72% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $8.95 | ↓ -71% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $9.04 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $16.90 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.89 | ↓ -36% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $27.46 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $33.53 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $67.68 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $70.50 | ↑ +126% |
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Acetone qualitative at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $11.60 | $3.45 – $12.25 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $11.60 | $3.47 – $8.86 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $119.70 | $4.52 – $4.97 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $179.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $19.68 | $4.07 – $21.24 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $158.90 | $4.52 – $16.27 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $19.68 | $4.07 – $20.57 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $19.68 | $4.07 – $21.24 |