Plasma cryoprecipitate reduced each unit at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$58.65
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.
$177.07
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.
$86.35 with Seattle Medical Group vs $734.62 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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| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $86.35 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $127.50 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $132.81 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $166.96 | ↑ +185% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $166.96 | ↑ +185% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $167.99 | ↑ +186% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $168.63 | ↑ +188% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $171.97 | ↑ +193% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $171.97 | ↑ +193% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $171.97 | ↑ +193% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $178.65 | ↑ +205% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $179.37 | ↑ +206% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $180.32 | ↑ +207% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $180.32 | ↑ +207% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $181.99 | ↑ +210% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $183.50 | ↑ +213% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $187.47 | ↑ +220% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $192.00 | ↑ +227% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $205.67 | ↑ +251% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $206.23 | ↑ +252% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $242.85 | ↑ +314% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $320.56 | ↑ +447% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $330.58 | ↑ +464% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $333.92 | ↑ +469% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $526.82 | ↑ +798% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $554.56 | ↑ +846% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $554.56 | ↑ +846% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $624.43 | ↑ +965% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $734.62 | ↑ +1153% |
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Plasma cryoprecipitate reduced each unit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $183.60 | $105.11 – $541.90 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $183.60 | $105.64 – $620.43 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $294.70 | $132.05 – $145.26 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $77.28 | $132.05 – $406.77 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $294.70 | $132.05 – $336.07 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $77.28 | $132.05 – $383.92 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $77.28 | $132.05 – $406.77 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $69.60 | not published |