Largsc w/rmvl foreign bdy(s) at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$341.79
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.
$1,031.97
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.
$440.13 with SoundPath vs $5,920.00 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 | $440.13 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $440.13 | ↑ +29% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $444.53 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $453.33 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $453.33 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $453.33 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $470.94 | ↑ +38% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $472.66 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $475.34 | ↑ +39% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $475.34 | ↑ +39% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $479.74 | ↑ +40% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $506.15 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $743.02 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $773.98 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $845.05 | ↑ +147% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $871.46 | ↑ +155% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $880.26 | ↑ +158% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $945.22 | ↑ +177% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,009.16 | ↑ +195% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,026.16 | ↑ +200% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,128.86 | ↑ +230% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,157.15 | ↑ +239% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,366.41 | ↑ +300% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,388.83 | ↑ +306% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,461.95 | ↑ +328% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,461.95 | ↑ +328% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,646.09 | ↑ +382% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,678.30 | ↑ +391% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,936.57 | ↑ +467% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $5,920.00 | ↑ +1632% |
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Largsc w/rmvl foreign bdy(s) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,204.40 | $460.75 – $2,966.21 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,204.40 | $447.33 – $1,877.47 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $522.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,071.36 | $452.91 – $1,776.08 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,840.60 | $435.84 – $1,171.46 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,071.36 | $452.91 – $1,719.40 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,071.36 | $454.18 – $1,776.08 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $745.68 | $452.91 – $2,210.66 |