Lev 3 hosp type b ed visit at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$642.84
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.
$1,940.94
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.
$211.49 with SoundPath vs $1,455.71 with MultiPlan — 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 | $211.49 | ↓ -67% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $211.49 | ↓ -67% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $213.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $217.83 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $217.83 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $217.83 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $226.29 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $228.41 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $228.41 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $230.52 | ↓ -64% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $243.21 | ↓ -62% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $244.03 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $406.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $418.75 | ↓ -35% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $422.98 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $463.03 | ↓ -28% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $494.35 | ↓ -23% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $529.79 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $566.84 | ↓ -12% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $582.81 | ↓ -9% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $612.94 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $667.34 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $669.35 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $702.47 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $702.47 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $790.97 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $854.02 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $930.56 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,397.48 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,455.71 | ↑ +126% |
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Lev 3 hosp type b ed visit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $202.49 – $1,531.39 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $196.59 – $901.51 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $324.10 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $444.50 | $191.54 – $520.87 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $538.30 | $177.24 – $354.35 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $507.50 | $191.54 – $617.15 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $483.00 | $191.54 – $502.80 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $856.63 | $917.67 – $1,746.85 |