Alcohol/subs interv 15-30mn at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$51.36
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.
$155.05
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.
$33.77 with SoundPath vs $184.72 with First Choice — 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 | $33.77 | ↓ -34% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $33.77 | ↓ -34% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $34.11 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $34.78 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $34.78 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $34.78 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $36.13 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $36.47 | ↓ -29% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $36.47 | ↓ -29% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $36.81 | ↓ -28% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $37.20 | ↓ -28% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $38.84 | ↓ -24% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $64.84 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $66.43 | ↑ +29% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $66.86 | ↑ +30% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $67.54 | ↑ +32% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $70.92 | ↑ +38% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $80.76 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $81.32 | ↑ +58% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $88.84 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $96.03 | ↑ +87% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $106.55 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $111.64 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $112.16 | ↑ +118% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $112.16 | ↑ +118% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $116.29 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $126.30 | ↑ +146% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $148.59 | ↑ +189% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $184.72 | ↑ +260% |
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Alcohol/subs interv 15-30mn at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $44.14 – $233.43 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $42.85 – $179.84 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $68.44 | $97.69 – $139.88 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $47.35 | $66.68 – $196.13 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $47.16 | $80.76 – $184.72 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $54.79 | $26.36 – $139.55 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $71.91 | $1.04 – $1,690.14 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $48.66 | $80.76 – $184.72 |