Apheresis plasma at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,637.88
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.
$4,945.32
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.
$0.70 with Cigna vs $8,175.33 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 | $0.70 | ↓ -100% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $1,704.28 | ↑ +4% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $1,858.03 | ↑ +13% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,858.03 | ↑ +13% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,876.61 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $1,913.77 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,913.77 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $1,913.77 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,988.09 | ↑ +21% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $2,006.67 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,006.67 | ↑ +23% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $2,025.25 | ↑ +24% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $2,136.73 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $3,551.76 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,560.64 | ↑ +117% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $3,567.42 | ↑ +118% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $3,678.90 | ↑ +125% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $3,699.99 | ↑ +126% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,708.99 | ↑ +126% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $3,716.06 | ↑ +127% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,792.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $4,070.27 | ↑ +149% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $4,223.52 | ↑ +158% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $4,348.10 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,134.41 | ↑ +213% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $5,863.03 | ↑ +258% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $6,171.69 | ↑ +277% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,171.69 | ↑ +277% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $6,949.03 | ↑ +324% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,175.33 | ↑ +399% |
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Apheresis plasma at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $3,290.80 | $1,209.23 – $10,695.14 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,290.80 | $1,215.28 – $7,476.01 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $2,496.06 | $1,735.51 – $1,909.06 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,853.44 | $1,803.48 – $6,221.01 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,773.40 | $1,735.51 – $4,765.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,853.44 | $1,803.48 – $6,022.47 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,853.44 | $1,808.54 – $6,221.01 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,208.00 | not published |