Cryoprecipitate each unit at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$90.11
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.
$272.06
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.
$72.05 with SoundPath vs $317.02 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $72.05 | ↓ -20% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $72.05 | ↓ -20% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $72.77 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $74.21 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $74.21 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $74.21 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $77.09 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $77.81 | ↓ -14% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $77.81 | ↓ -14% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $78.53 | ↓ -13% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $82.86 | ↓ -8% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $93.23 | ↑ +3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $138.34 | ↑ +54% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $142.66 | ↑ +58% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $144.10 | ↑ +60% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $145.45 | ↑ +61% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $155.30 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $178.07 | ↑ +98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $186.56 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $194.33 | ↑ +116% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $202.41 | ↑ +125% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $204.27 | ↑ +127% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $210.26 | ↑ +133% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $222.66 | ↑ +147% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $227.36 | ↑ +152% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $239.33 | ↑ +166% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $239.33 | ↑ +166% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $269.47 | ↑ +199% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $317.02 | ↑ +252% |
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Cryoprecipitate each unit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $206.00 | $82.96 – $585.08 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $206.00 | $80.55 – $344.43 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $746.20 | $71.95 – $79.15 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $72.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $72.00 | $71.95 – $224.46 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $746.20 | $71.95 – $183.11 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $72.00 | $71.95 – $211.85 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $72.00 | $71.95 – $224.46 |