Cardiac shunt imaging at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$882.11
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.
$2,663.37
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.
$455.45 with SoundPath vs $2,003.98 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 |
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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $455.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $455.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $460.00 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $469.11 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $469.11 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $469.11 | ↓ -47% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $487.13 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $487.33 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $491.89 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $491.89 | ↓ -44% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $496.44 | ↓ -44% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $523.77 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $780.44 | ↓ -12% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $874.46 | ↓ -1% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $901.79 | ↑ +2% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $910.90 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $954.76 | ↑ +8% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,019.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,057.56 | ↑ +20% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,163.40 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,168.81 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,380.19 | ↑ +56% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,437.18 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,512.84 | ↑ +72% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,512.84 | ↑ +72% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,541.47 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,703.38 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,917.63 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,997.53 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,003.98 | ↑ +127% |
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Cardiac shunt imaging at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $271.16 – $3,056.97 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $272.52 – $1,919.01 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,200.00 | $462.93 – $1,730.21 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,511.20 | $445.48 – $1,325.27 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,200.00 | $462.93 – $1,674.99 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,200.00 | $464.23 – $1,730.21 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $739.20 | $306.94 – $1,439.39 |