Allg patch or app # of tests 95044 at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$446.81
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.
$1,349.06
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.
$95.19 with First Choice vs $5,073.86 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $95.19 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $971.33 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,011.80 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,153.15 | ↑ +158% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $1,153.15 | ↑ +158% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,164.68 | ↑ +161% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $1,171.06 | ↑ +162% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $1,187.74 | ↑ +166% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,187.74 | ↑ +166% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $1,187.74 | ↑ +166% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,233.87 | ↑ +176% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,245.40 | ↑ +179% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,245.40 | ↑ +179% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,256.93 | ↑ +181% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,326.12 | ↑ +197% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $2,214.05 | ↑ +396% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $2,283.24 | ↑ +411% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $2,306.30 | ↑ +416% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $2,420.28 | ↑ +442% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $2,542.35 | ↑ +469% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,583.99 | ↑ +478% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $2,796.79 | ↑ +526% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $2,962.94 | ↑ +563% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,498.75 | ↑ +683% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $3,638.78 | ↑ +714% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $3,830.35 | ↑ +757% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,830.35 | ↑ +757% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $4,312.78 | ↑ +865% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,073.86 | ↑ +1036% |
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Allg patch or app # of tests 95044 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $30.07 – $7,348.90 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $30.22 – $4,326.18 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $595.41 | $849.91 – $4,403.73 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $411.95 | $162.31 – $1,214.16 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $410.32 | $95.19 – $2,542.35 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $476.71 | $162.31 – $1,214.16 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $423.37 | $95.19 – $2,542.35 |
| St. Clare Hospital | Lakewood | $388.86 | $95.19 – $2,542.35 |