Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each additional hour at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$188.44
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.
$568.95
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.
$80.67 with SoundPath vs $426.72 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $80.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $80.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $81.48 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $83.09 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $83.09 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $83.09 | ↓ -56% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $84.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $86.32 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $87.12 | ↓ -54% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $87.12 | ↓ -54% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $87.93 | ↓ -53% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $92.77 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $154.89 | ↓ -18% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $159.73 | ↓ -15% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $161.34 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $163.07 | ↓ -13% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $174.10 | ↓ -8% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $180.32 | ↓ -4% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $183.58 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $199.64 | ↑ +6% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $201.95 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $235.73 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $254.56 | ↑ +35% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $267.96 | ↑ +42% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $267.96 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $284.48 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $301.71 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $354.95 | ↑ +88% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $409.65 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $426.72 | ↑ +126% |
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Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each additional hour at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $162.40 | $84.82 – $1,286.44 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $162.40 | $82.35 – $393.33 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $204.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $289.92 | $83.38 – $284.21 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $393.40 | $80.23 – $217.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $289.92 | $83.38 – $275.14 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $289.92 | $83.61 – $284.21 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $222.56 | $83.38 – $376.73 |