Pegaspargase injection at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$51,549.89
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.
$155,646.95
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.
$11,049.41 with First Choice vs $135,004.45 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 |
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| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $11,049.41 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25,781.46 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $25,781.46 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $27,014.86 | ↓ -48% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $27,014.86 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27,070.53 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $27,070.53 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $27,070.53 | ↓ -47% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $29,548.89 | ↓ -43% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $32,216.97 | ↓ -38% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $32,216.97 | ↓ -38% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $32,539.14 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $33,183.48 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $33,183.48 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $33,183.48 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $34,472.16 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $34,794.33 | ↓ -33% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $34,794.33 | ↓ -33% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $35,116.50 | ↓ -32% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $37,049.52 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $58,911.03 | ↑ +14% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $63,789.60 | ↑ +24% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $64,433.94 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $70,716.88 | ↑ +37% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $77,789.99 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $77,823.48 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $112,065.81 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $114,753.78 | ↑ +123% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $116,735.22 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $135,004.45 | ↑ +162% |
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Pegaspargase injection at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $13,061.82 – $185,433.18 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $13,127.21 – $109,161.56 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $56,102.26 | $20,109.54 – $52,584.51 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $80,326.32 | $27,014.86 – $190,918.55 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $56,102.26 | $25,781.46 – $65,377.89 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $42,938.87 | $24,160.45 – $92,804.55 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $68,694.47 | $30,057.42 – $140,082.26 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $47,527.66 | $13,243.23 – $140,082.26 |