Counseling smoke cess interm >10mins at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$23.83
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.
$71.93
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.
$33.77 with Kaiser vs $148.59 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $33.77 | ↑ +42% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $33.77 | ↑ +42% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $34.11 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $34.78 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $34.78 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $34.78 | ↑ +46% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $36.13 | ↑ +52% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $36.47 | ↑ +53% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $36.47 | ↑ +53% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $36.81 | ↑ +54% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $37.20 | ↑ +56% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $38.84 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $51.79 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $53.95 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $64.84 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $66.43 | ↑ +179% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $66.86 | ↑ +181% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $67.54 | ↑ +183% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $70.92 | ↑ +198% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $72.53 | ↑ +204% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $81.32 | ↑ +241% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $96.03 | ↑ +303% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $106.55 | ↑ +347% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $112.16 | ↑ +371% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $112.16 | ↑ +371% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $126.30 | ↑ +430% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $148.59 | ↑ +524% |
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Counseling smoke cess interm >10mins at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $52.00 | $44.14 – $233.43 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $52.00 | $42.85 – $179.84 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $54.60 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $87.36 | $43.39 – $131.81 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $69.30 | $41.75 – $106.26 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $87.36 | $43.39 – $124.31 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $87.36 | $43.51 – $128.40 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $57.40 | not published |