Assay of semen fructose at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$48.62
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.
$146.79
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.
$17.34 with Kaiser vs $128.53 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 |
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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $17.34 | ↓ -64% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $17.34 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $17.34 | ↓ -64% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $17.51 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $17.86 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $17.86 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $18.21 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $18.43 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $18.55 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $18.73 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $18.73 | ↓ -61% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $18.90 | ↓ -61% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $19.94 | ↓ -59% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $19.94 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $20.81 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.81 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $20.81 | ↓ -57% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $26.01 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.01 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $31.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $33.29 | ↓ -32% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $34.33 | ↓ -29% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $34.68 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $64.85 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.30 | ↑ +57% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $105.37 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $105.69 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $110.10 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $128.53 | ↑ +164% |
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Assay of semen fructose at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $8.59 – $30.49 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $8.63 – $33.99 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $77.60 | $13.00 – $13.00 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $64.79 | $17.34 – $132.12 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $44.83 | $17.34 – $132.12 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $44.65 | $17.34 – $110.10 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $51.88 | $17.34 – $132.12 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $49.98 | $12.14 – $54.20 |