Beta-2 microglobulin at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$84.13
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.
$254.00
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.
$16.18 with Kaiser vs $190.50 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.
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 | $16.18 | ↓ -81% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $16.18 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $16.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $16.67 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $16.67 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $16.99 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $17.20 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $17.31 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $17.47 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $17.47 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $17.64 | ↓ -79% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $18.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $18.61 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $19.42 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.42 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $19.42 | ↓ -77% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.27 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.27 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $29.33 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $31.07 | ↓ -63% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $32.04 | ↓ -62% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $32.36 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $60.51 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $71.19 | ↓ -15% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $98.29 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $119.89 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $182.88 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $190.50 | ↑ +126% |
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Beta-2 microglobulin at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $40.00 | $8.89 – $31.56 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $40.00 | $8.93 – $31.71 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $108.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $116.64 | $14.56 – $76.05 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $188.30 | $16.18 – $58.25 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $116.64 | $14.56 – $73.62 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $116.64 | $14.56 – $76.05 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $110.40 | $13.00 – $13.00 |