Apply interstit radiat compl at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$2,555.33
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.
$7,715.41
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.
$786.39 with SoundPath vs $5,786.56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $786.39 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $786.39 | ↓ -69% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $794.25 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $809.98 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $809.98 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $809.98 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $841.44 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $849.30 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $849.30 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $857.17 | ↓ -66% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $904.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $904.52 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,462.63 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,509.87 | ↓ -41% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,557.05 | ↓ -39% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,572.78 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,659.70 | ↓ -35% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,771.97 | ↓ -31% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,963.73 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $2,031.83 | ↓ -20% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $2,160.25 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,399.25 | ↓ -6% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,481.45 | ↓ -3% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,612.09 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,612.09 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,941.10 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,460.12 | ↑ +35% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $4,354.57 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $5,555.10 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,786.56 | ↑ +126% |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $2,524.00 | $820.47 – $5,676.33 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $2,524.00 | $796.57 – $3,343.22 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,297.60 | $806.51 – $3,480.44 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $5,419.40 | $776.11 – $2,665.87 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,297.60 | $806.51 – $3,369.37 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,297.60 | $808.77 – $3,480.44 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,385.60 | $694.00 – $694.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,679.90 | $635.31 – $1,435.81 |