Cardiac perf planar sgl/ef/wm at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,061.44
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.
$3,204.85
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.
$1,479.68 with SoundPath vs $6,510.59 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 | $1,479.68 | ↑ +39% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,479.68 | ↑ +39% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,494.48 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $1,524.07 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,524.07 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $1,524.07 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,583.26 | ↑ +49% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,598.05 | ↑ +51% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,598.05 | ↑ +51% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,612.85 | ↑ +52% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $1,663.46 | ↑ +57% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,701.63 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,307.50 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,403.64 | ↑ +126% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,686.06 | ↑ +153% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $2,840.99 | ↑ +168% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $2,929.77 | ↑ +176% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $2,959.36 | ↑ +179% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $3,287.02 | ↑ +210% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $3,483.45 | ↑ +228% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,509.37 | ↑ +231% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $3,611.37 | ↑ +240% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $3,972.78 | ↑ +274% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $4,024.02 | ↑ +279% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $4,669.15 | ↑ +340% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,751.70 | ↑ +348% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $4,914.96 | ↑ +363% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,914.96 | ↑ +363% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $5,534.00 | ↑ +421% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,510.59 | ↑ +513% |
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Cardiac perf planar sgl/ef/wm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $2,561.60 | $681.37 – $10,438.98 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $2,561.60 | $684.78 – $6,214.62 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $1,499.19 – $5,979.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $7,074.20 | $1,442.68 – $4,579.88 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $1,499.19 – $5,788.46 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,099.68 | $906.79 – $5,979.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $4,483.20 | $1,306.00 – $1,306.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,094.10 | not published |