Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$140.12
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.
$423.07
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.
$52.30 with Kaiser vs $317.31 with MultiPlan — 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 | $52.30 | ↓ -63% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $52.30 | ↓ -63% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $52.82 | ↓ -62% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $53.11 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $53.87 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $53.87 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $53.87 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $55.96 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $56.48 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $56.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $57.01 | ↓ -59% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $60.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $100.42 | ↓ -28% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $103.55 | ↓ -26% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $104.60 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $109.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $115.28 | ↓ -18% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $117.40 | ↓ -16% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $126.82 | ↓ -9% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $128.52 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $134.62 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $158.94 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $165.01 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $173.70 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $173.70 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $195.60 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $230.12 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $304.62 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $317.31 | ↑ +126% |
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Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $109.60 | $55.16 – $1,286.44 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $109.60 | $53.56 – $393.33 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $113.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $83.04 | $54.22 – $179.12 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $68.60 | $52.18 – $137.20 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $83.04 | $54.22 – $173.40 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $83.04 | $54.38 – $179.12 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $119.08 | $54.22 – $237.43 |