Fetal shunt placement w/us at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$252.90
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.
$763.57
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.
$344.78 with SoundPath vs $4,556.00 with Cigna — 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $344.78 | ↑ +36% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $344.78 | ↑ +36% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $348.23 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $355.12 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $355.12 | ↑ +40% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $355.12 | ↑ +40% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $365.91 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $368.91 | ↑ +46% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $372.36 | ↑ +47% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $372.36 | ↑ +47% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $375.81 | ↑ +49% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $396.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $549.78 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $572.68 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $661.98 | ↑ +162% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $682.66 | ↑ +170% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $689.56 | ↑ +173% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $742.63 | ↑ +194% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $792.85 | ↑ +214% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $794.39 | ↑ +214% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $873.89 | ↑ +246% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $909.12 | ↑ +259% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,073.54 | ↑ +324% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,087.96 | ↑ +330% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,145.24 | ↑ +353% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,145.24 | ↑ +353% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,289.48 | ↑ +410% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,323.83 | ↑ +423% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,517.03 | ↑ +500% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +1702% |
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Fetal shunt placement w/us at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $358.98 – $2,520.64 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $348.53 – $1,462.78 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $337.01 | $481.05 – $1,376.01 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $233.17 | $328.34 – $687.22 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $232.24 | $549.78 – $794.39 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $269.82 | $129.81 – $687.22 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $504.39 | $1.04 – $2,526.02 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $239.63 | $549.78 – $794.39 |