Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$640.56
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.
$1,934.06
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.
$756.54 with SoundPath vs $4,556.00 with Cigna — 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 | $756.54 | ↑ +18% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $756.54 | ↑ +18% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $764.11 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $779.24 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $779.24 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $779.24 | ↑ +22% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $783.74 | ↑ +22% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $809.50 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $817.06 | ↑ +28% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $817.06 | ↑ +28% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $824.63 | ↑ +29% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $870.02 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,392.53 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,450.55 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,452.56 | ↑ +127% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,497.95 | ↑ +134% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,513.08 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,581.30 | ↑ +147% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,688.27 | ↑ +164% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,701.49 | ↑ +166% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,871.77 | ↑ +192% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,935.85 | ↑ +202% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,285.91 | ↑ +257% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,387.24 | ↑ +273% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,512.92 | ↑ +292% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,512.92 | ↑ +292% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,572.52 | ↑ +302% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,829.46 | ↑ +342% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,328.78 | ↑ +420% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +611% |
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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,827.60 | $821.44 – $4,918.30 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,827.60 | $797.51 – $3,347.17 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,091.30 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,639.20 | $807.46 – $2,615.69 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,222.90 | $777.03 – $1,977.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,639.20 | $807.46 – $2,532.21 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,639.20 | $809.73 – $2,615.69 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,160.64 | $807.46 – $3,255.70 |