Fetal chrmoml microdeltj at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$764.66
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.
$2,308.77
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.
$759.05 with BCBS - Regence vs $3,339.82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $759.05 | ↓ -1% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $759.05 | ↓ -1% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $759.05 | ↓ -1% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $766.64 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $781.82 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $781.82 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $797.00 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $806.87 | ↑ +6% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $812.18 | ↑ +6% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $819.77 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $819.77 | ↑ +7% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $827.36 | ↑ +8% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $872.91 | ↑ +14% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $872.91 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $910.86 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $910.86 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $910.86 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,115.04 | ↑ +46% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,138.58 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,138.58 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,396.91 | ↑ +83% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,455.11 | ↑ +90% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,457.38 | ↑ +91% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,502.92 | ↑ +97% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,518.10 | ↑ +99% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $2,065.30 | ↑ +170% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $2,271.99 | ↑ +197% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,838.85 | ↑ +271% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,339.82 | ↑ +337% |
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Fetal chrmoml microdeltj at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $759.05 – $818.26 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $743.87 – $1,487.74 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,001.92 | $683.14 – $2,305.99 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,001.92 | $683.14 – $2,277.15 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,001.92 | $683.14 – $1,685.09 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $3,001.92 | $759.05 – $3,036.20 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $760.20 | $759.05 – $1,404.24 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,018.98 | $759.05 – $1,776.18 |