Ep & ablate ventric tachy at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$21,550.02
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.
$65,066.95
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.
$6,725.00 with Cigna vs $122,345.92 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $6,725.00 | ↓ -69% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $27,805.89 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $27,805.89 | ↑ +29% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $28,083.95 | ↑ +30% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $28,640.07 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $28,640.07 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $28,640.07 | ↑ +33% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $29,428.94 | ↑ +37% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $29,752.30 | ↑ +38% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $30,030.36 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $30,030.36 | ↑ +39% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $30,308.42 | ↑ +41% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $31,976.77 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $46,848.21 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $48,800.22 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $53,387.31 | ↑ +148% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $54,979.03 | ↑ +155% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $55,055.66 | ↑ +155% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $55,611.78 | ↑ +158% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $58,697.86 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $63,890.24 | ↑ +196% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $67,306.00 | ↑ +212% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $70,284.20 | ↑ +226% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $79,477.46 | ↑ +269% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $87,741.72 | ↑ +307% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $92,361.01 | ↑ +329% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $92,361.01 | ↑ +329% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $103,994.03 | ↑ +383% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $122,345.92 | ↑ +468% |
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Ep & ablate ventric tachy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $21,050.80 | $11,548.43 – $184,680.35 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $21,050.80 | $11,606.24 – $125,467.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $59,311.20 | $30,267.37 – $99,519.76 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $34,365.80 | $29,126.58 – $74,127.14 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $59,311.20 | $30,267.37 – $95,841.42 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $59,311.20 | $17,896.00 – $99,519.76 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $56,558.40 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $9,955.40 | $1,879.48 – $75,814.85 |