Brachy source iodine-125 nonstranded at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$71.33
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.
$215.34
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.
$39.80 with SoundPath vs $175.12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $39.80 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $39.80 | ↓ -44% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $40.20 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $40.99 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $40.99 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $40.99 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $42.59 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $42.98 | ↓ -40% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $42.98 | ↓ -40% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $43.38 | ↓ -39% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $44.25 | ↓ -38% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $45.77 | ↓ -36% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $76.42 | ↑ +7% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $78.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $79.60 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $84.92 | ↑ +19% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $90.66 | ↑ +27% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $96.07 | ↑ +35% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $97.68 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $103.95 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $105.69 | ↑ +48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $107.67 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $122.76 | ↑ +72% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $125.59 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $132.20 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $132.20 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $148.85 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $155.05 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $161.51 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $175.12 | ↑ +146% |
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Brachy source iodine-125 nonstranded at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $42.25 – $1,051.17 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $41.02 – $321.39 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $169.04 | $36.64 – $167.51 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $98.00 | $36.64 – $128.30 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $27.36 | $36.64 – $149.69 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $27.36 | $36.64 – $167.51 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $68.20 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $169.04 | $36.64 – $146.12 |