Rbc deglycerolized each unit at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$675.87
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.
$2,040.68
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.
$517.90 with Seattle Medical Group vs $3,260.31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $517.90 | ↓ -23% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $588.80 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $740.98 | ↑ +10% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $740.98 | ↑ +10% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $748.39 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $755.87 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $763.21 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $763.21 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $763.21 | ↑ +13% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $792.85 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $800.26 | ↑ +18% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $800.26 | ↑ +18% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $806.99 | ↑ +19% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $807.67 | ↑ +20% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $852.13 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $925.33 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,092.69 | ↑ +62% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,124.36 | ↑ +66% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,236.88 | ↑ +83% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,422.68 | ↑ +110% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,467.14 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,469.29 | ↑ +117% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,481.96 | ↑ +119% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,530.51 | ↑ +126% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,338.16 | ↑ +246% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,461.26 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,461.26 | ↑ +264% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,771.27 | ↑ +310% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,260.31 | ↑ +382% |
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Rbc deglycerolized each unit at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,830.00 | $105.11 – $3,250.05 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,830.00 | $105.64 – $1,913.25 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $509.12 | $313.00 – $344.30 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $538.56 | $313.00 – $1,426.05 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $878.50 | $313.00 – $1,153.66 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $538.56 | $313.00 – $1,345.93 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $538.56 | $313.00 – $1,426.05 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $918.40 | not published |