Antibody id rbc panel at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$192.72
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.
$581.86
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.
$67.17 with Cigna vs $1,793.97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $67.17 | ↓ -65% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $86.05 | ↓ -55% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $406.20 | ↑ +111% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $407.72 | ↑ +112% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $407.72 | ↑ +112% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $411.80 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $418.94 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $419.95 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $419.95 | ↑ +118% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $419.95 | ↑ +118% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $436.26 | ↑ +126% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $436.40 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $440.34 | ↑ +128% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $440.34 | ↑ +128% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $444.41 | ↑ +131% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $468.88 | ↑ +143% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $782.82 | ↑ +306% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $807.29 | ↑ +319% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $815.44 | ↑ +323% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $832.07 | ↑ +332% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $881.87 | ↑ +358% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $888.36 | ↑ +361% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $970.13 | ↑ +403% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,018.64 | ↑ +429% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,202.83 | ↑ +524% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,286.56 | ↑ +568% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,354.29 | ↑ +603% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,354.29 | ↑ +603% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,524.87 | ↑ +691% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,793.97 | ↑ +831% |
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Antibody id rbc panel at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $236.40 | $18.51 – $2,549.13 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $236.40 | $18.60 – $1,720.62 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $224.28 | $399.43 – $439.38 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $287.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $295.68 | $2.43 – $1,332.03 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $618.10 | $2.67 – $1,020.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $295.68 | $2.43 – $1,289.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $295.68 | $2.43 – $1,332.03 |