#cbg+cort-cbg at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$33.50
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.
$101.12
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.
$18.00 with Kaiser vs $133.35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -46% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $18.18 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $18.90 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $19.13 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $19.26 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $19.44 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.44 | ↓ -42% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $19.62 | ↓ -41% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $20.70 | ↓ -38% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $20.70 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $21.60 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.60 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $21.60 | ↓ -36% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $27.00 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $32.63 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $34.56 | ↑ +3% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $35.64 | ↑ +6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $36.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $67.32 | ↑ +101% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $72.81 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $75.84 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $79.20 | ↑ +136% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $109.36 | ↑ +226% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $133.35 | ↑ +298% |
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#cbg+cort-cbg at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $34.00 | $8.89 – $31.56 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $34.00 | $8.93 – $35.28 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $80.80 | $14.00 – $14.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $37.10 | $18.00 – $33.30 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $50.40 | $8.53 – $32.63 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $24.80 | $18.63 – $32.31 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $44.63 | $18.00 – $91.01 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $30.88 | $18.00 – $105.78 |