Drng of hydrocele 55000 at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$297.46
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.
$898.11
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.
$619.70 with Cigna vs $3,508.91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $619.70 | ↑ +108% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $646.64 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $673.59 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $797.48 | ↑ +168% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $797.48 | ↑ +168% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $805.45 | ↑ +171% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $813.35 | ↑ +173% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $821.40 | ↑ +176% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $821.40 | ↑ +176% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $821.40 | ↑ +176% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $853.30 | ↑ +187% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $861.28 | ↑ +190% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $861.28 | ↑ +190% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $869.25 | ↑ +192% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $917.10 | ↑ +208% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,531.16 | ↑ +415% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,579.01 | ↑ +431% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,594.96 | ↑ +436% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,628.68 | ↑ +448% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,737.65 | ↑ +484% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,738.85 | ↑ +485% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,765.78 | ↑ +494% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,942.50 | ↑ +553% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,993.85 | ↑ +570% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,354.41 | ↑ +692% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,516.44 | ↑ +746% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,648.92 | ↑ +791% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,648.92 | ↑ +791% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,982.58 | ↑ +903% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,508.91 | ↑ +1080% |
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Drng of hydrocele 55000 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $50.90 – $5,104.15 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $51.16 – $3,399.19 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,071.00 | $789.10 – $2,008.27 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $502.60 | $141.70 – $2,263.14 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $396.38 | $565.81 – $3,058.60 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $274.25 | $386.19 – $808.30 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $273.16 | $646.64 – $1,765.78 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $317.37 | $152.68 – $808.30 |