Intraoral i+d tongue/floor lingual 41000 at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$469.31
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.
$1,416.98
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.
$572.53 with Seattle Medical Group vs $6,410.77 with First Choice — 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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| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $572.53 | ↑ +22% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $577.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $577.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $582.97 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $594.52 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $594.52 | ↑ +27% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $594.52 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $617.60 | ↑ +32% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $623.38 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $623.38 | ↑ +33% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $629.15 | ↑ +34% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $663.78 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,020.23 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,062.74 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,108.22 | ↑ +136% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,142.86 | ↑ +144% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,154.40 | ↑ +146% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,242.96 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,273.65 | ↑ +171% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,359.80 | ↑ +190% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,367.35 | ↑ +191% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,559.22 | ↑ +232% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,821.38 | ↑ +288% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,841.19 | ↑ +292% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,917.27 | ↑ +309% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,917.27 | ↑ +309% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,158.73 | ↑ +360% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,539.68 | ↑ +441% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +871% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $6,410.77 | ↑ +1266% |
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Intraoral i+d tongue/floor lingual 41000 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $635.35 – $3,592.89 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $616.84 – $2,588.91 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,505.70 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $4,262.30 | $601.00 – $1,529.54 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,055.08 | $624.54 – $2,584.06 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,803.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,624.00 | $487.53 – $2,005.41 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,597.40 | $208.61 – $1,638.78 |