Protoporphyrin rbc screen at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$50.84
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.
$153.49
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.
$9.74 with Kaiser vs $115.12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -81% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $9.84 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $10.03 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.03 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $10.23 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $10.35 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10.42 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $10.52 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.52 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $10.62 | ↓ -79% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $11.20 | ↓ -78% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $11.20 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $11.69 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.69 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $11.69 | ↓ -77% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $15.62 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $18.70 | ↓ -63% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $19.29 | ↓ -62% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $19.48 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $36.43 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.86 | ↓ -16% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $52.34 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $63.80 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $110.52 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $115.12 | ↑ +126% |
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Protoporphyrin rbc screen at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $3.45 – $12.25 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $3.47 – $19.09 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $147.00 | $9.74 – $35.06 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $44.00 | $7.00 – $7.00 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $93.80 | $9.74 – $38.08 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $90.30 | $9.74 – $41.59 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $67.75 | $9.74 – $138.15 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $46.87 | $9.74 – $138.15 |