Bld exchange truj oth thn nb at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$421.69
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.
$1,273.20
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.
$495.52 with SoundPath vs $4,556.00 with Cigna — 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $495.52 | ↑ +18% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $495.52 | ↑ +18% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $500.48 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $510.39 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.39 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $510.39 | ↑ +21% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $511.03 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $530.21 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $535.16 | ↑ +27% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $535.16 | ↑ +27% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $540.12 | ↑ +28% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $569.85 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $916.71 | ↑ +117% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $951.40 | ↑ +126% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $954.90 | ↑ +126% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $981.13 | ↑ +133% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $991.04 | ↑ +135% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,004.90 | ↑ +138% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,072.86 | ↑ +154% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,109.45 | ↑ +163% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,220.48 | ↑ +189% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,230.20 | ↑ +192% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,242.53 | ↑ +195% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,452.68 | ↑ +244% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,563.60 | ↑ +271% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,645.92 | ↑ +290% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,645.92 | ↑ +290% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,853.24 | ↑ +339% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,180.29 | ↑ +417% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +980% |
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Bld exchange truj oth thn nb at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $325.28 – $3,206.95 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $326.91 – $2,117.74 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $561.93 | $802.12 – $1,921.73 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $388.78 | $547.48 – $1,319.29 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $387.25 | $916.71 – $1,242.53 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $449.91 | $216.45 – $1,145.88 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $707.37 | $2.25 – $637.51 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $399.56 | $916.71 – $1,242.53 |