Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$877.09
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.
$2,648.21
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.
$784.93 with SoundPath vs $4,556.00 with Cigna — 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $784.93 | ↓ -11% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $784.93 | ↓ -11% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $792.78 | ↓ -10% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $807.54 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $808.48 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $808.48 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $808.48 | ↓ -8% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $839.88 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $847.72 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $847.72 | ↓ -3% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $855.57 | ↓ -2% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $902.67 | ↑ +3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,507.07 | ↑ +72% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,554.16 | ↑ +77% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,569.86 | ↑ +79% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,600.83 | ↑ +83% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,709.12 | ↑ +95% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,753.18 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,906.72 | ↑ +117% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,928.64 | ↑ +120% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,959.77 | ↑ +123% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,986.16 | ↑ +126% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,314.15 | ↑ +164% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,476.86 | ↑ +182% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,607.26 | ↑ +197% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,607.26 | ↑ +197% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,839.18 | ↑ +224% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,935.64 | ↑ +235% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,453.69 | ↑ +294% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +419% |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $348.04 – $5,067.73 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $349.78 – $3,388.40 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $142.80 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,168.79 | $1,668.38 – $3,036.77 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $808.65 | $1,138.74 – $2,383.39 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $805.45 | $1,753.18 – $1,986.16 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $935.79 | $450.20 – $2,383.39 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,112.31 | $122.50 – $1,908.54 |