Autologous blood process at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$328.68
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.
$992.37
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.
$154.43 with Cigna vs $854.61 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 | $154.43 | ↓ -53% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $162.87 | ↓ -50% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $194.23 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $194.23 | ↓ -41% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $196.17 | ↓ -40% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $197.08 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $200.06 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $200.06 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $200.06 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $207.83 | ↓ -37% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $209.77 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $209.77 | ↓ -36% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $211.71 | ↓ -36% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $223.36 | ↓ -32% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $372.92 | ↑ +13% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $384.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $388.46 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $395.39 | ↑ +20% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $422.13 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $427.86 | ↑ +30% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $470.68 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $484.04 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $571.57 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $612.90 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $645.17 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $645.17 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $714.51 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $726.42 | ↑ +121% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $744.28 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $854.61 | ↑ +160% |
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Autologous blood process at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $468.40 | $18.79 – $1,236.77 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $468.40 | $18.89 – $817.83 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $482.40 | $172.00 – $172.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $380.10 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $452.90 | $151.35 – $351.22 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $277.20 | $18.04 – $699.76 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $202.00 | $203.25 – $531.60 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $437.99 | $273.32 – $893.14 |