EKG tracing for initial prev at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$44.60
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.
$134.66
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.
$27.76 with SoundPath vs $138.57 with First Choice — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $27.76 | ↓ -38% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $27.76 | ↓ -38% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $28.04 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $28.59 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $28.59 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $28.59 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $29.70 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $29.98 | ↓ -33% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $29.98 | ↓ -33% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $30.26 | ↓ -32% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $31.28 | ↓ -30% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $31.92 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $53.30 | ↑ +20% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $54.96 | ↑ +23% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $55.52 | ↑ +24% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $67.91 | ↑ +52% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $68.93 | ↑ +55% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $73.59 | ↑ +65% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $74.71 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $84.38 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $87.61 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $92.22 | ↑ +107% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $92.22 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $96.96 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $99.65 | ↑ +123% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $101.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $103.82 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $122.14 | ↑ +174% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $138.57 | ↑ +211% |
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EKG tracing for initial prev at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $34.07 – $196.31 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $33.08 – $138.82 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $59.44 | $84.84 – $121.20 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $41.12 | $57.91 – $147.13 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $40.96 | $67.91 – $138.57 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $47.59 | $22.90 – $121.20 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $42.33 | $0.19 – $1,869.58 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $42.26 | $67.91 – $138.57 |