Fresh frozen plasma frozen within 8 hours of collection each unit at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$90.11
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.
$272.06
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.
$95.54 with Kaiser vs $420.38 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $95.54 | ↑ +6% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $95.54 | ↑ +6% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $96.50 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $98.41 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $98.41 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $98.41 | ↑ +9% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $102.23 | ↑ +13% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $103.18 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $103.18 | ↑ +15% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $104.14 | ↑ +16% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $107.12 | ↑ +19% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $109.87 | ↑ +22% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $183.44 | ↑ +104% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $189.17 | ↑ +110% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $191.08 | ↑ +112% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $194.28 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $195.89 | ↑ +117% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $197.09 | ↑ +119% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $204.05 | ↑ +126% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $207.41 | ↑ +130% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $232.56 | ↑ +158% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $237.83 | ↑ +164% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $255.83 | ↑ +184% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $280.84 | ↑ +212% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $301.48 | ↑ +235% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $317.35 | ↑ +252% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $317.35 | ↑ +252% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $357.32 | ↑ +297% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $420.38 | ↑ +367% |
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Fresh frozen plasma frozen within 8 hours of collection each unit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $215.60 | $99.14 – $672.22 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $215.60 | $96.25 – $403.95 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $401.80 | $85.98 – $94.58 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $128.10 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $100.32 | $85.98 – $372.69 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $401.80 | $85.98 – $301.50 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $100.32 | $85.98 – $351.75 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $100.32 | $85.98 – $372.69 |