Assay alkaline phosphatase at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$35.06
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$105.85
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$8.26 with Kaiser vs $79.39 with MultiPlan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.26 | ↓ -76% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $8.26 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $8.26 | ↓ -76% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $8.34 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $8.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.51 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $8.67 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $8.78 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $8.92 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -74% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $9.50 | ↓ -73% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $9.50 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $9.91 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.91 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $9.91 | ↓ -72% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.39 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $13.24 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $15.86 | ↓ -55% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $16.35 | ↓ -53% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $16.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $30.89 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36.34 | ↑ +4% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $44.36 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $54.15 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $76.22 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $79.39 | ↑ +126% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Assay alkaline phosphatase at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $3.45 – $12.25 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $3.47 – $16.19 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $37.60 | $6.00 – $6.00 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $17.68 | $8.26 – $34.69 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $159.64 | $7.02 – $46.26 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $46.72 | $8.26 – $95.27 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $32.33 | $8.26 – $95.27 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $32.20 | $8.26 – $79.39 |