Cytopathology fna adequacy evaluation first episode each site interp/rpt at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$178.23
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.
$538.12
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.
$60.56 with SoundPath vs $403.59 with MultiPlan — 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 | $60.56 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $60.56 | ↓ -66% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $61.17 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $62.38 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $62.38 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $62.38 | ↓ -65% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $62.84 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $64.80 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $65.40 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $65.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $66.01 | ↓ -63% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $69.64 | ↓ -61% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $116.28 | ↓ -35% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $119.91 | ↓ -33% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $121.12 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $122.15 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $125.43 | ↓ -30% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $127.37 | ↓ -29% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $133.92 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $136.43 | ↓ -23% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $150.08 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $153.56 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $181.32 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $191.10 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $201.16 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $201.16 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $226.49 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $266.46 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $387.45 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $403.59 | ↑ +126% |
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Cytopathology fna adequacy evaluation first episode each site interp/rpt at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $158.00 | $26.02 – $394.35 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $158.00 | $26.15 – $250.15 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $135.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $140.16 | $60.34 – $232.51 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $262.50 | $58.07 – $178.09 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $140.16 | $60.34 – $225.09 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $140.16 | $60.51 – $232.51 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $466.40 | $54.00 – $54.00 |