Brachytx isodose complex at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,699.92
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.
$5,132.63
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.
$414.92 with SoundPath vs $3,849.48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $414.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $414.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $419.07 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $427.37 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $427.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $427.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $443.96 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $448.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $448.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $449.58 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $452.26 | ↓ -73% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $477.16 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $661.75 | ↓ -61% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $796.65 | ↓ -53% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $821.54 | ↓ -52% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $829.84 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $855.34 | ↓ -50% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $913.18 | ↓ -46% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $976.04 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,047.10 | ↓ -38% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,073.72 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,236.47 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,309.29 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,378.22 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,378.22 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,551.80 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,825.65 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,695.50 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,849.48 | ↑ +126% |
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Brachytx isodose complex at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $242.00 | $135.34 – $2,821.33 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $242.00 | $136.02 – $1,797.33 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,388.16 | $433.59 – $1,575.25 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $601.30 | $417.24 – $1,206.58 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,388.16 | $433.59 – $1,524.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,388.16 | $434.80 – $1,575.25 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,440.00 | $367.00 – $367.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,099.00 | $327.41 – $771.90 |