Laryngoscopy direct w/wo tracheoscopy dx exc newborn at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,078.65
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.
$3,256.81
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.
$1,954.58 with SoundPath vs $8,600.15 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.
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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 | $1,954.58 | ↑ +81% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,954.58 | ↑ +81% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,974.13 | ↑ +83% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $2,003.46 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $2,013.22 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,013.22 | ↑ +87% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $2,013.22 | ↑ +87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,091.40 | ↑ +94% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $2,110.95 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,110.95 | ↑ +96% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $2,130.49 | ↑ +98% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $2,247.77 | ↑ +108% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,344.91 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,442.61 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $3,752.79 | ↑ +248% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $3,870.07 | ↑ +259% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $3,909.16 | ↑ +262% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $3,928.95 | ↑ +264% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,194.70 | ↑ +289% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $4,349.52 | ↑ +303% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +322% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $4,784.81 | ↑ +344% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $4,809.86 | ↑ +346% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,679.68 | ↑ +427% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $6,167.72 | ↑ +472% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,492.43 | ↑ +502% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $6,492.43 | ↑ +502% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $7,310.13 | ↑ +578% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $8,108.02 | ↑ +652% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,600.15 | ↑ +697% |
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Laryngoscopy direct w/wo tracheoscopy dx exc newborn at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $4,343.60 | $537.16 – $12,572.67 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $4,343.60 | $539.85 – $8,543.90 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $2,527.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,692.64 | $2,061.10 – $6,967.07 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,356.20 | $1,983.42 – $5,047.80 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,692.64 | $2,061.10 – $6,709.56 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,692.64 | $2,066.89 – $6,967.07 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $3,158.48 | $2,061.10 – $8,369.07 |