Dialysis one evaluation at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$2,167.57
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.
$6,544.63
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.
$478.27 with Seattle Medical Group vs $2,123.62 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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| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $478.27 | ↓ -78% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $482.64 | ↓ -78% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $482.64 | ↓ -78% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $487.47 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $497.12 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $497.12 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $497.12 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $516.42 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $521.25 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $521.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $526.08 | ↓ -76% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $555.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $926.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $955.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $965.28 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,025.28 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,036.68 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,038.32 | ↓ -52% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,079.87 | ↓ -50% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,094.63 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,142.24 | ↓ -47% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,173.80 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,255.15 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,482.14 | ↓ -32% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,522.97 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,603.15 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,603.15 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,636.16 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,805.07 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,123.62 | ↓ -2% |
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Dialysis one evaluation at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $540.80 | $491.55 – $3,001.36 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $540.80 | $477.23 – $1,865.50 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,499.40 | $464.97 – $511.47 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $5,091.36 | $483.19 – $1,653.41 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,857.10 | $179.76 – $1,266.44 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $5,091.36 | $483.19 – $1,477.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $5,091.36 | $368.85 – $1,653.41 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,814.40 | $247.72 – $860.20 |