Interrog dev eval icpms ip at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$42.78
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.
$129.15
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.
$42.27 with SoundPath vs $185.99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $42.27 | ↓ -1% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $42.27 | ↓ -1% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $42.69 | ↓ -0% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $43.54 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $43.54 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $43.54 | ↑ +2% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $43.86 | ↑ +3% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $45.23 | ↑ +6% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $45.65 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $45.65 | ↑ +7% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $46.07 | ↑ +8% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $48.61 | ↑ +14% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $65.12 | ↑ +52% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $81.16 | ↑ +90% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $83.69 | ↑ +96% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $84.54 | ↑ +98% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $87.30 | ↑ +104% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $92.99 | ↑ +117% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $93.20 | ↑ +118% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $95.23 | ↑ +123% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $96.87 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $104.76 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $106.87 | ↑ +150% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $126.20 | ↑ +195% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $133.37 | ↑ +212% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $140.39 | ↑ +228% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $140.39 | ↑ +228% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $158.09 | ↑ +270% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $185.99 | ↑ +335% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Interrog dev eval icpms ip at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $27.22 – $275.28 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $27.36 – $179.15 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $127.20 | $43.22 – $170.38 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $127.20 | $43.22 – $164.94 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $127.20 | $43.34 – $170.38 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $47.20 | $44.52 – $117.37 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $57.01 | $81.37 – $164.96 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $39.44 | $55.54 – $116.24 |