Ghs insertion of needle - bone at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$220.33
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$665.23
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$452.29 with Kaiser vs $1,990.08 with Aetna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $452.29 | ↑ +105% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $452.29 | ↑ +105% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $456.81 | ↑ +107% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $459.01 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $465.86 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $465.86 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $465.86 | ↑ +111% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $473.20 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $478.97 | ↑ +117% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $483.95 | ↑ +120% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $488.47 | ↑ +122% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $488.47 | ↑ +122% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $493.00 | ↑ +124% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $498.93 | ↑ +126% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $520.13 | ↑ +136% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $612.12 | ↑ +178% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $868.40 | ↑ +294% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $895.53 | ↑ +306% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $904.58 | ↑ +311% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $922.34 | ↑ +319% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $984.72 | ↑ +347% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,027.33 | ↑ +366% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,129.13 | ↑ +412% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,130.14 | ↑ +413% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,333.33 | ↑ +505% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,427.20 | ↑ +548% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,502.34 | ↑ +582% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,502.34 | ↑ +582% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,691.56 | ↑ +668% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,990.08 | ↑ +803% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Ghs insertion of needle - bone at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $169.97 – $2,969.59 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $170.83 – $2,144.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $144.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $949.92 | $517.30 – $1,708.87 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $342.30 | $497.80 – $1,308.92 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $949.92 | $517.30 – $1,654.33 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $949.92 | $518.75 – $1,708.87 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,514.24 | $517.30 – $2,265.17 |