Belatacept 250 mg intravenous solution at St. Joseph Medical Center

1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 17, 2026

$1,724.88

Cash price

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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.

$5,208.00

Gross charge

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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.

$3.87 with BCBS - Regence vs $3,906.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
BCBS - Regence Commercial|All Plans $3.87 ↓ -100%
BCBS - Premera Commercial|All Other Plans $3.87 ↓ -100%
Uniform Medical Plan Commercial|All Plans $3.87 ↓ -100%
BCBS - Premera Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange $3.87 ↓ -100%
United Commercial|Cascade Care $3.93 ↓ -100%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $3.93 ↓ -100%
United Commercial|Navigate $3.93 ↓ -100%
SoundPath Medicare|All Plans $4.41 ↓ -100%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $4.41 ↓ -100%
Optum Medicare|All Plans $4.45 ↓ -100%
BCBS - Premera Medicare|All Plans $4.54 ↓ -100%
BCBS - Regence Medicare|All Plans $4.54 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $4.54 ↓ -100%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $4.72 ↓ -100%
Seattle Medical Group Medicare|All Plans $4.74 ↓ -100%
United Medicare|All Plans $4.76 ↓ -100%
Molina Medicare|All Plans $4.76 ↓ -100%
Amerigroup Medicare|All Plans $4.81 ↓ -100%
CHPW Medicare|All Plans $5.07 ↓ -100%
Molina Commercial|Marketplace Exchange $8.56 ↓ -100%
Coordinated Care Commercial|Ambetter Exchange $8.73 ↓ -99%
Sound Family Medicine Commercial|All Plans $8.82 ↓ -99%
Kaiser Commercial|HMO $11.37 ↓ -99%
Kaiser Commercial|PPO $12.50 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial|AWH $16.68 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $19.62 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $2,604.00 ↑ +51%
First Choice Commercial|All Plans $3,697.68 ↑ +114%
Aetna Commercial|Rental $3,749.76 ↑ +117%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $3,906.00 ↑ +126%

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Belatacept 250 mg intravenous solution at other Washington hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital Tacoma not published $3.93 – $2,816.24
Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus Seattle $2,547.91 $3.87 – $10.42
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital Spokane $2,618.32 $3.02 – $8.68
Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill Seattle $2,547.91 $3.87 – $7.55
Swedish Issaquah Issaquah $2,547.91 $3.87 – $10.42
Central Medical Center Seattle $1,337.43 $3.89 – $3.89
Providence Centralia Hospital Centralia $2,962.18 $3.87 – $24.96
Providence Mount Carmel Hospital Colville $2,618.32 not published

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