Alcohol/subs interv >30 min at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$102.70
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.
$310.08
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.
$182.11 with SoundPath vs $801.28 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 | $182.11 | ↑ +77% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $182.11 | ↑ +77% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $182.61 | ↑ +78% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $183.93 | ↑ +79% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $187.57 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $187.57 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $187.57 | ↑ +83% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $194.86 | ↑ +90% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $196.68 | ↑ +92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $196.68 | ↑ +92% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $198.50 | ↑ +93% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $209.43 | ↑ +104% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $223.26 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $232.56 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $349.65 | ↑ +240% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $360.58 | ↑ +251% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $364.22 | ↑ +255% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $369.08 | ↑ +259% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $394.04 | ↑ +284% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $396.44 | ↑ +286% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $412.85 | ↑ +302% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $436.11 | ↑ +325% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $451.83 | ↑ +340% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $533.55 | ↑ +420% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $574.66 | ↑ +460% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $604.92 | ↑ +489% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $604.92 | ↑ +489% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $681.09 | ↑ +563% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $801.28 | ↑ +680% |
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Alcohol/subs interv >30 min at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $209.10 – $1,145.93 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $203.01 – $852.02 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $136.86 | $195.36 – $686.68 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $94.69 | $133.34 – $438.35 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $94.32 | $223.26 – $412.85 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $109.58 | $52.72 – $279.08 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $182.07 | $1.94 – $313.67 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $97.32 | $223.26 – $412.85 |