C-1 esterase, berinert at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$9,927.67
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.
$29,975.05
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.
$64.36 with BCBS - Premera vs $22,481.29 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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| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $64.36 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $64.36 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $67.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $67.77 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $72.46 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $72.46 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $76.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $85.99 | ↓ -99% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $85.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $86.85 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $88.57 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $88.57 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $88.57 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $92.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $92.87 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $92.87 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $93.73 | ↓ -99% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $98.89 | ↓ -99% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $99.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $157.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $170.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $171.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $182.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $200.37 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $307.13 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $361.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $14,987.53 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $21,582.04 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $22,481.29 | ↑ +126% |
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C-1 esterase, berinert at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $76.77 – $477.64 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $10,149.69 | $67.77 – $149.41 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $10,430.17 | $50.20 – $140.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $10,149.69 | $67.77 – $140.69 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $10,149.69 | $67.77 – $149.41 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $10,149.69 | $70.90 – $140.69 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $11,222.65 | $67.77 – $419.05 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $8,129.39 | $64.36 – $140.69 |