Artiss fibrin sealant at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,361.94
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.
$4,112.16
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.
$132.73 with BCBS - Premera vs $889.95 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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| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $132.73 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $132.73 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $134.50 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $134.50 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $134.50 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $138.31 | ↓ -90% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $138.31 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $161.03 | ↓ -88% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $161.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $162.64 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $165.86 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $165.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $165.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $172.30 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $173.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $173.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $175.52 | ↓ -87% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $185.18 | ↓ -86% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $226.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $292.68 | ↓ -79% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $318.84 | ↓ -77% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $322.06 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $491.23 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $540.39 | ↓ -60% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $564.08 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $570.13 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $593.30 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $670.74 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $854.35 | ↓ -37% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $889.95 | ↓ -35% |
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Artiss fibrin sealant at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,252.00 | $143.70 – $1,419.95 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,252.00 | $140.83 – $835.90 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,501.22 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,640.81 | $138.31 – $432.88 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,574.46 | $103.53 – $360.74 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,640.81 | $138.31 – $313.68 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,640.81 | $138.31 – $432.88 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $4,323.18 | not published |