G6pc gene at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$60.86
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.
$183.75
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.
$58.49 with SoundPath vs $257.36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $58.49 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $58.49 | ↓ -4% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $58.49 | ↓ -4% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $59.07 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $60.24 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $60.24 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $61.41 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $62.17 | ↑ +2% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $62.58 | ↑ +3% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $63.17 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $63.17 | ↑ +4% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $63.75 | ↑ +5% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $67.26 | ↑ +11% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $67.26 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $70.19 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $70.19 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $70.19 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $85.93 | ↑ +41% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $87.74 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $87.74 | ↑ +44% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $110.25 | ↑ +81% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $112.30 | ↑ +85% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $115.81 | ↑ +90% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $116.98 | ↑ +92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $132.30 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $137.82 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $159.15 | ↑ +162% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $175.07 | ↑ +188% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $218.75 | ↑ +259% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $257.36 | ↑ +323% |
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G6pc gene at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $30.61 – $108.67 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $30.76 – $114.64 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $81.10 | $58.49 – $165.38 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $56.11 | $58.49 – $165.38 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $55.89 | $58.49 – $137.82 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $64.94 | $31.24 – $165.38 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $88.74 | $40.94 – $182.82 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $57.67 | $58.49 – $137.82 |