Cltx palatal/max fx wire fix at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,720.34
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.
$5,194.29
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.
$3,565.66 with Seattle Medical Group vs $16,173.65 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 | $3,565.66 | ↑ +107% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $3,675.83 | ↑ +114% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,675.83 | ↑ +114% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $3,712.59 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,739.89 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $3,786.10 | ↑ +120% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,786.10 | ↑ +120% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $3,786.10 | ↑ +120% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,895.72 | ↑ +126% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,933.14 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,969.90 | ↑ +131% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3,969.90 | ↑ +131% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4,006.65 | ↑ +133% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $4,227.20 | ↑ +146% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $7,057.59 | ↑ +310% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $7,278.14 | ↑ +323% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $7,351.66 | ↑ +327% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $7,452.98 | ↑ +333% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $7,741.04 | ↑ +350% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,957.10 | ↑ +363% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $8,016.00 | ↑ +366% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $8,515.74 | ↑ +395% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $9,124.02 | ↑ +430% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $9,462.54 | ↑ +450% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,774.00 | ↑ +526% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $11,599.09 | ↑ +574% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $12,209.74 | ↑ +610% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12,209.74 | ↑ +610% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $13,747.60 | ↑ +699% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,173.65 | ↑ +840% |
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Cltx palatal/max fx wire fix at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,996.66 – $22,376.16 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $2,006.65 – $15,914.98 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $5,476.80 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,200.60 | $3,694.56 – $9,402.66 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $5,944.12 | $3,839.27 – $15,322.85 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $6,584.90 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $10,753.40 | $2,852.89 – $6,834.94 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $12,922.70 | $929.98 – $9,717.57 |