Chemo ia infusion up to 1 hr at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$338.94
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.
$1,023.35
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.
$258.89 with Seattle Medical Group vs $1,654.18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $258.89 | ↓ -24% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $375.95 | ↑ +11% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $375.95 | ↑ +11% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $379.71 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $387.23 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $387.23 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $387.23 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $402.27 | ↑ +19% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $406.03 | ↑ +20% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $406.03 | ↑ +20% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $409.79 | ↑ +21% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $432.34 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $511.68 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $562.06 | ↑ +66% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $618.31 | ↑ +82% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $721.82 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $736.82 | ↑ +117% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $744.38 | ↑ +120% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $751.90 | ↑ +122% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $767.52 | ↑ +126% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $783.96 | ↑ +131% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $837.00 | ↑ +147% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $959.75 | ↑ +183% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,076.25 | ↑ +218% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,133.29 | ↑ +234% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,186.32 | ↑ +250% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,248.77 | ↑ +268% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,248.77 | ↑ +268% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,406.05 | ↑ +315% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,654.18 | ↑ +388% |
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Chemo ia infusion up to 1 hr at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $214.10 – $1,624.67 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $215.18 – $1,585.54 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,213.10 | $279.39 – $718.42 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $659.36 | $376.15 – $872.68 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $451.66 | $644.72 – $973.56 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $312.49 | $440.05 – $1,142.74 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $311.26 | $511.68 – $1,076.25 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $361.62 | $173.97 – $921.02 |