Platelets leukocytes reduced each unit at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$94.41
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.
$285.04
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.
$142.55 with Kaiser vs $627.22 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $142.55 | ↑ +51% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $142.55 | ↑ +51% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $143.98 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $146.83 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $146.83 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $146.83 | ↑ +56% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $152.53 | ↑ +62% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $153.95 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $153.95 | ↑ +63% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $155.38 | ↑ +65% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $163.93 | ↑ +74% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $164.05 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $205.23 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $213.78 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $273.70 | ↑ +190% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $282.25 | ↑ +199% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $285.10 | ↑ +202% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $317.98 | ↑ +237% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $323.43 | ↑ +243% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $339.49 | ↑ +260% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $356.14 | ↑ +277% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $389.28 | ↑ +312% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $391.78 | ↑ +315% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $449.84 | ↑ +376% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $459.67 | ↑ +387% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $473.52 | ↑ +402% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $473.52 | ↑ +402% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $533.14 | ↑ +465% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $627.22 | ↑ +564% |
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Platelets leukocytes reduced each unit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $279.60 | $105.11 – $1,029.45 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $279.60 | $105.64 – $677.81 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $273.70 | $144.26 – $158.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $128.16 | $144.26 – $562.26 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $273.70 | $144.26 – $454.86 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $128.16 | $144.26 – $530.67 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $128.16 | $144.26 – $562.26 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $128.16 | $144.26 – $518.04 |