Pegloticase 8 mg/ml intravenous solution at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$31,974.33
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.
$96,541.55
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.
$997.03 with First Choice vs $72,406.17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $997.03 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,371.08 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $3,371.08 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $3,447.06 | ↓ -89% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,447.06 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,550.05 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $3,550.05 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $3,550.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $4,004.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,124.43 | ↓ -87% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $4,124.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $4,165.67 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,248.16 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $4,248.16 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $4,248.16 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,413.14 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,454.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4,454.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4,495.63 | ↓ -86% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $4,743.09 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $7,725.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $8,166.37 | ↓ -74% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $8,248.86 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $9,603.66 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $10,564.22 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $15,048.90 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,704.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $48,270.78 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $69,509.92 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $72,406.17 | ↑ +126% |
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Pegloticase 8 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $6,222.04 | $3,748.03 – $14,824.61 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $3,860.47 – $46,369.48 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $42,608.42 | $4,669.18 – $86,887.40 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $29,479.50 | $1,247.80 – $86,887.40 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $29,362.99 | $997.03 – $72,406.17 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $34,114.35 | $1,000.05 – $86,887.40 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $30,296.97 | $997.03 – $72,406.17 |
| St. Clare Hospital | Lakewood | $27,827.22 | $997.03 – $72,406.17 |