Insert sq defib electrode at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$2,976.20
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.
$8,986.16
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.
$0.70 with Cigna vs $41,273.45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.70 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $6,470.04 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,739.62 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9,380.33 | ↑ +215% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $9,380.33 | ↑ +215% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $9,474.13 | ↑ +218% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $9,661.74 | ↑ +225% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9,661.74 | ↑ +225% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $9,661.74 | ↑ +225% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10,036.95 | ↑ +237% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10,130.76 | ↑ +240% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $10,130.76 | ↑ +240% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $10,224.56 | ↑ +244% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $10,230.34 | ↑ +244% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $10,787.38 | ↑ +262% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $18,010.23 | ↑ +505% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $18,573.05 | ↑ +524% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $18,760.66 | ↑ +530% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $19,666.35 | ↑ +561% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $20,996.61 | ↑ +605% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $22,210.08 | ↑ +646% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $24,075.80 | ↑ +709% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $24,432.80 | ↑ +721% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28,429.59 | ↑ +855% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $29,599.70 | ↑ +895% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31,158.02 | ↑ +947% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $31,158.02 | ↑ +947% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $35,082.43 | ↑ +1079% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41,273.45 | ↑ +1287% |
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Insert sq defib electrode at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $4,875.60 | $1,200.74 – $64,200.19 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $4,875.60 | $1,206.75 – $39,723.75 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $8,167.68 | $7,277.00 – $37,215.81 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $19,708.50 | $5,419.00 – $23,689.74 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $8,167.68 | $7,277.00 – $35,840.28 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $8,167.68 | $7,277.00 – $37,215.81 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $3,966.03 | $5,661.29 – $38,471.14 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $2,743.98 | $3,864.05 – $8,087.55 |