Dimethyl sulfoxide 50% 50 ml at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,278.16
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.
$3,859.20
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.
$349.61 with First Choice vs $3,567.74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $349.61 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $680.82 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $680.82 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $706.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $706.17 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $715.39 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $715.39 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $715.39 | ↓ -44% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $799.23 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $842.03 | ↓ -34% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $842.03 | ↓ -34% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $850.45 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $867.29 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $867.29 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $867.29 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $900.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $909.39 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $909.39 | ↓ -29% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $917.81 | ↓ -28% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $968.33 | ↓ -24% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,556.83 | ↑ +22% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,667.22 | ↑ +30% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,684.06 | ↑ +32% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,915.72 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,929.60 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $2,107.33 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,778.63 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,894.40 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $3,032.58 | ↑ +137% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,567.74 | ↑ +179% |
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Dimethyl sulfoxide 50% 50 ml at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $253.99 – $5,023.38 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $255.26 – $2,957.18 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,859.56 | $706.17 – $1,754.44 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,910.94 | $531.04 – $1,462.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,859.56 | $706.17 – $1,385.60 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,859.56 | $706.17 – $1,754.44 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $958.38 | $742.90 – $742.90 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,910.94 | not published |