Platelets hla matched leukocytes reduced apheresis/pheresis each unit at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$653.01
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.
$1,971.64
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.
$881.24 with SoundPath vs $3,877.46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $881.24 | ↑ +35% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $881.24 | ↑ +35% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $890.05 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $907.68 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $907.68 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $907.68 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $942.93 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $951.74 | ↑ +46% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $951.74 | ↑ +46% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $960.55 | ↑ +47% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,013.43 | ↑ +55% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $1,038.43 | ↑ +59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,419.59 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,478.73 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,691.98 | ↑ +159% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,744.86 | ↑ +167% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,750.92 | ↑ +168% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,762.48 | ↑ +170% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,869.35 | ↑ +186% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,981.41 | ↑ +203% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $2,143.49 | ↑ +228% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $2,254.43 | ↑ +245% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $2,480.05 | ↑ +280% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,531.13 | ↑ +288% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,780.76 | ↑ +326% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,927.16 | ↑ +348% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,927.16 | ↑ +348% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $3,295.84 | ↑ +405% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,877.46 | ↑ +494% |
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Platelets hla matched leukocytes reduced apheresis/pheresis each unit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,996.40 | $264.16 – $6,516.62 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,996.40 | $265.48 – $3,836.23 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,807.40 | $708.06 – $778.87 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,807.40 | $708.06 – $3,075.91 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,165.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,711.50 | $670.22 – $1,309.91 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,711.50 | $708.06 – $3,340.78 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $779.80 | $708.06 – $1,858.66 |