Cytomegalovirus imm IV /vial at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$7,914.45
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.
$23,896.45
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.
$1,807.87 with BCBS - Premera vs $9,047.19 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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| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,807.87 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,807.87 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,812.14 | ↓ -77% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,812.14 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,814.11 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,814.11 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,814.11 | ↓ -77% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $2,050.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,050.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $2,071.41 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $2,112.43 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $2,112.43 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,112.43 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,194.46 | ↓ -72% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $2,214.97 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,214.97 | ↓ -72% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $2,217.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $2,235.48 | ↓ -72% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $2,358.53 | ↓ -70% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $3,914.67 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $3,947.87 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $3,982.75 | ↓ -50% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $4,060.78 | ↓ -49% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $4,101.80 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $5,442.77 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $5,735.16 | ↓ -28% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,974.13 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $5,987.16 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $7,690.11 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,047.19 | ↑ +14% |
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Cytomegalovirus imm IV /vial at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,825.61 – $14,271.99 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,772.43 – $8,401.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,743.54 | $1,808.61 – $4,131.59 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $4,315.84 | $1,410.14 – $3,442.99 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,743.54 | $1,808.61 – $3,345.92 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,743.54 | $1,808.61 – $4,131.59 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $4,743.54 | $1,808.61 – $3,345.92 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $4,643.76 | $1,808.61 – $11,205.82 |