Cath left heart/lv gram at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$10,933.45
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.
$33,011.87
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.
$3,645.61 with Kaiser vs $24,758.91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,645.61 | ↓ -67% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $3,645.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $3,682.07 | ↓ -66% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $3,707.82 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $3,754.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,754.98 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $3,754.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,900.80 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3,937.26 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,937.26 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $3,973.71 | ↓ -64% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $4,192.45 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $6,725.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $6,999.57 | ↓ -36% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $7,218.31 | ↓ -34% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $7,291.22 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $7,543.13 | ↓ -31% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $8,049.67 | ↓ -26% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,053.36 | ↓ -26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $8,855.26 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $9,234.40 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,904.31 | ↓ -0% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $11,503.76 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $12,109.40 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12,109.40 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $13,634.58 | ↑ +25% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $14,761.02 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,040.68 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $23,768.55 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24,758.91 | ↑ +126% |
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Cath left heart/lv gram at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $8,298.00 | $1,663.47 – $23,268.29 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $8,298.00 | $1,671.79 – $15,562.01 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $10,188.00 | $3,754.12 – $13,879.26 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $9,333.10 | $3,612.63 – $9,194.14 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $10,188.00 | $3,754.12 – $13,366.27 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $10,188.00 | $3,764.66 – $13,879.26 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $7,760.00 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $9,835.00 | $2,887.40 – $6,683.36 |