Mayo receptor assay transferrin soluble at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$66.81
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.
$201.71
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.
$36.57 with Kaiser vs $271.06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $36.57 | ↓ -45% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $36.57 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $36.57 | ↓ -45% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $36.94 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $37.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $37.67 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $38.40 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $38.87 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $39.13 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $39.50 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $39.50 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $39.86 | ↓ -40% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $42.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $42.06 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $43.88 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.88 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $43.88 | ↓ -34% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $54.86 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54.86 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $66.31 | ↓ -1% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $70.21 | ↑ +5% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $72.41 | ↑ +8% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $73.14 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $136.77 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $145.24 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $151.29 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $160.91 | ↑ +141% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $222.18 | ↑ +233% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $271.06 | ↑ +306% |
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Mayo receptor assay transferrin soluble at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $85.20 | $22.59 – $80.21 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $85.20 | $22.71 – $71.68 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $179.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $214.56 | $32.91 – $171.88 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $244.30 | $36.57 – $131.65 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $214.56 | $32.91 – $166.39 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $214.56 | $32.91 – $171.88 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $164.00 | $28.00 – $28.00 |