Antinuclear antibodies at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$43.61
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.
$131.67
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.
$12.09 with Kaiser vs $98.76 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.09 | ↓ -72% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $12.09 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $12.09 | ↓ -72% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $12.21 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $12.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12.45 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $12.69 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $12.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $13.06 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.06 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $13.18 | ↓ -70% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $13.90 | ↓ -68% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $13.90 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $14.51 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.51 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $14.51 | ↓ -67% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $18.14 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.14 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $21.92 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $23.21 | ↓ -47% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $23.94 | ↓ -45% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $24.18 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $45.22 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.20 | ↑ +22% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $73.45 | ↑ +68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $89.63 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $94.81 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $98.76 | ↑ +126% |
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Antinuclear antibodies at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $32.40 | $7.37 – $26.16 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $32.40 | $7.41 – $23.70 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $161.81 | $12.09 – $13.30 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $106.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $63.36 | $10.88 – $56.82 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $216.30 | $12.09 – $43.52 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $63.36 | $10.88 – $55.01 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $63.36 | $10.88 – $56.82 |