Floxuridine injection at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$524.99
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.
$1,585.10
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.
$251.27 with First Choice vs $19,896.89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $251.27 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $792.55 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,141.28 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,188.83 | ↑ +126% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $3,722.04 | ↑ +609% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,722.04 | ↑ +609% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,857.12 | ↑ +635% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $3,857.12 | ↑ +635% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $3,989.64 | ↑ +660% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,989.64 | ↑ +660% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $3,989.64 | ↑ +660% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,676.06 | ↑ +791% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $4,676.06 | ↑ +791% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $4,722.82 | ↑ +800% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,816.34 | ↑ +817% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $4,816.34 | ↑ +817% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $4,816.34 | ↑ +817% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5,003.38 | ↑ +853% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5,050.14 | ↑ +862% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $5,050.14 | ↑ +862% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $5,096.91 | ↑ +871% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $5,377.47 | ↑ +924% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $8,682.28 | ↑ +1554% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $9,258.60 | ↑ +1664% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $9,352.12 | ↑ +1681% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $16,912.35 | ↑ +3121% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19,896.89 | ↑ +3690% |
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Floxuridine injection at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $4,290.93 – $27,928.62 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $4,165.95 – $16,441.13 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $699.59 | $184.00 – $1,426.59 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $484.02 | $301.16 – $1,426.59 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $482.11 | $251.27 – $1,188.83 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $560.12 | $269.47 – $1,426.59 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $497.45 | $251.27 – $1,188.83 |
| St. Clare Hospital | Lakewood | $456.90 | $251.27 – $1,188.83 |