I131 iodide cap, rx at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$33.35
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.
$100.68
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.
$21.34 with BCBS - Regence vs $115.37 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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| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $21.34 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.34 | ↓ -36% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $21.34 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $21.34 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $23.13 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.13 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $23.13 | ↓ -31% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $26.22 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $26.22 | ↓ -21% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $26.48 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $27.01 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $27.01 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $27.01 | ↓ -19% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $28.06 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $28.32 | ↓ -15% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $28.32 | ↓ -15% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $28.58 | ↓ -14% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $29.74 | ↓ -11% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $30.15 | ↓ -10% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $50.34 | ↑ +51% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $51.92 | ↑ +56% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $52.44 | ↑ +57% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $64.57 | ↑ +94% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $71.03 | ↑ +113% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $71.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $72.49 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $75.51 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $98.06 | ↑ +194% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $115.37 | ↑ +246% |
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I131 iodide cap, rx at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $33.20 | $24.07 – $1,136.60 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $33.20 | $23.59 – $347.51 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $52.00 | $21.34 – $59.79 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $52.00 | $20.46 – $78.59 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $145.20 | $24.07 – $310.36 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $32.40 | $24.06 – $46.70 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $44.44 | $42.68 – $111.84 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $30.75 | $43.30 – $90.62 |