Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$5,585.05
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.
$16,863.20
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.
$303.56 with Aetna vs $5,697.34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $303.56 | ↓ -95% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $316.20 | ↓ -94% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $947.33 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $947.33 | ↓ -83% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $956.80 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $975.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $975.75 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $975.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,013.64 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,023.12 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,023.12 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,032.59 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,069.50 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,069.50 | ↓ -81% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,071.97 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,071.97 | ↓ -81% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,089.43 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,142.41 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,142.41 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,142.41 | ↓ -80% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,875.71 | ↓ -66% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,894.66 | ↓ -66% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $2,428.74 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $2,486.11 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $3,983.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $4,381.60 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $4,842.74 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,697.34 | ↑ +2% |
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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $780.32 | $1,178.95 – $7,403.56 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,173.07 – $10,967.15 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $539.88 | $835.80 – $835.80 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,527.32 | $1,071.97 – $6,628.80 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $803.10 | $1,126.10 – $5,909.60 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $741.50 | $1,978.57 – $6,408.13 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $7,442.54 | $265.61 – $5,860.46 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $5,149.28 | $181.29 – $379.44 |