#creutz-prot.,western blot at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$52.33
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.
$158.00
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.
$29.21 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 | $29.21 | ↓ -44% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -44% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $29.50 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $30.09 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $30.09 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $30.67 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $31.05 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $31.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $31.55 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $31.55 | ↓ -40% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $31.84 | ↓ -39% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $33.59 | ↓ -36% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $33.59 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $35.05 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.05 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $35.05 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $42.92 | ↓ -18% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $43.82 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.82 | ↓ -16% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $56.08 | ↑ +7% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $57.84 | ↑ +11% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $58.42 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $109.25 | ↑ +109% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $109.36 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $113.76 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $118.50 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $128.52 | ↑ +146% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $133.35 | ↑ +155% |
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#creutz-prot.,western blot at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $56.40 | $7.37 – $33.59 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $56.40 | $7.41 – $57.25 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $58.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $130.08 | $26.29 – $137.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $61.60 | $29.21 – $105.16 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $130.08 | $26.29 – $132.91 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $130.08 | $26.29 – $137.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $127.20 | $22.00 – $22.00 |