Heparin neutralization at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$27.13
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.
$81.90
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.
$11.84 with Kaiser vs $87.76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $11.84 | ↓ -56% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $11.84 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $11.84 | ↓ -56% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $11.96 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $12.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12.20 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $12.43 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $12.59 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $12.67 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $12.79 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.79 | ↓ -53% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $12.91 | ↓ -52% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $13.62 | ↓ -50% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $13.62 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $14.21 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.21 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $14.21 | ↓ -48% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $17.76 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.76 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $21.47 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $22.73 | ↓ -16% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $23.44 | ↓ -14% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $23.68 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $44.28 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $52.10 | ↑ +92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $58.97 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $61.43 | ↑ +126% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $71.99 | ↑ +165% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $87.76 | ↑ +223% |
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Heparin neutralization at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $2.63 – $12.18 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $2.64 – $23.21 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $40.95 | $11.84 – $13.02 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $51.10 | $11.84 – $42.62 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $105.60 | $9.00 – $9.00 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $54.60 | $11.84 – $50.53 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $36.15 | $11.84 – $73.71 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $25.01 | $11.84 – $73.71 |