Asp & inj w/heparin pleurx cath at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$360.04
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.
$1,087.08
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 $3,083.34 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% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $118.96 | ↓ -67% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $123.91 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $700.76 | ↑ +95% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $700.76 | ↑ +95% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $707.77 | ↑ +97% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $721.78 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $721.78 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $721.78 | ↑ +100% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $725.03 | ↑ +101% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $749.81 | ↑ +108% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $756.82 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $756.82 | ↑ +110% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $763.83 | ↑ +112% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $805.87 | ↑ +124% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,345.46 | ↑ +274% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,387.50 | ↑ +285% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,401.52 | ↑ +289% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,454.21 | ↑ +304% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,552.58 | ↑ +331% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,574.04 | ↑ +337% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,731.57 | ↑ +381% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,780.27 | ↑ +394% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,092.18 | ↑ +481% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,102.20 | ↑ +484% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,211.26 | ↑ +514% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,327.68 | ↑ +547% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,327.68 | ↑ +547% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,620.84 | ↑ +628% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,083.34 | ↑ +756% |
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Asp & inj w/heparin pleurx cath at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $2,210.80 | $673.13 – $4,549.90 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $2,210.80 | $676.50 – $3,011.21 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,652.16 | $726.41 – $2,963.40 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,379.70 | $699.03 – $1,954.58 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,652.16 | $726.41 – $2,868.82 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,652.16 | $728.45 – $2,963.40 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,440.00 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $9,816.80 | $699.03 – $2,339.19 |