Perc cryo ablate renal tum at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$5,142.12
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.
$15,525.84
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.
$11,178.61 with Aetna vs $51,922.16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $11,178.61 | ↑ +117% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $11,389.05 | ↑ +121% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11,644.38 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $11,800.49 | ↑ +129% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $11,800.49 | ↑ +129% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $11,918.49 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $12,154.50 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12,154.50 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $12,154.50 | ↑ +136% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $12,626.52 | ↑ +146% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $12,744.53 | ↑ +148% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12,744.53 | ↑ +148% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $12,862.53 | ↑ +150% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $13,570.56 | ↑ +164% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $16,415.00 | ↑ +219% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $22,206.75 | ↑ +332% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $22,656.94 | ↑ +341% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $23,364.97 | ↑ +354% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $23,600.98 | ↑ +359% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $23,828.57 | ↑ +363% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $24,725.63 | ↑ +381% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $25,440.35 | ↑ +395% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $27,200.11 | ↑ +429% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $29,171.22 | ↑ +467% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34,446.49 | ↑ +570% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $37,236.56 | ↑ +624% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $39,196.93 | ↑ +662% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39,196.93 | ↑ +662% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $44,133.83 | ↑ +758% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $51,922.16 | ↑ +910% |
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Perc cryo ablate renal tum at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $5,024.80 | $4,900.48 – $71,471.61 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $5,024.80 | $4,925.02 – $51,025.66 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $14,938.08 | $7,277.00 – $40,971.85 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $11,116.70 | $11,845.30 – $30,146.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $14,938.08 | $7,277.00 – $39,457.49 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $14,938.08 | $7,277.00 – $40,971.85 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $13,330.10 | $9,121.22 – $21,913.80 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $7,849.80 | $759.03 – $31,212.64 |