Repair elbow deb/attch open at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$2,980.78
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.
$9,000.00
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.
$3,677.57 with SoundPath vs $16,415.00 with Cigna — 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $3,677.57 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,677.57 | ↑ +23% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $3,714.35 | ↑ +25% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $3,730.62 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $3,787.90 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,787.90 | ↑ +27% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $3,787.90 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,935.00 | ↑ +32% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3,971.78 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,971.78 | ↑ +33% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4,008.55 | ↑ +34% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $4,229.21 | ↑ +42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $6,480.00 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,750.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $7,060.93 | ↑ +137% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $7,281.59 | ↑ +144% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $7,355.14 | ↑ +147% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $7,492.85 | ↑ +151% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,999.67 | ↑ +168% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $8,099.19 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $8,909.74 | ↑ +199% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $9,172.83 | ↑ +208% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,831.64 | ↑ +263% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $11,604.61 | ↑ +289% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12,215.55 | ↑ +310% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $12,215.55 | ↑ +310% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $12,310.14 | ↑ +313% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $13,754.11 | ↑ +361% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,181.31 | ↑ +443% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $16,415.00 | ↑ +451% |
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Repair elbow deb/attch open at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,222.29 – $23,411.43 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,228.41 – $15,706.36 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $3,972.14 | $5,670.00 – $14,029.00 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $2,748.20 | $3,870.00 – $8,100.00 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $2,737.34 | $6,480.00 – $8,099.19 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $3,180.28 | $1,530.00 – $8,100.00 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $4,577.25 | $9.72 – $2,863.64 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $2,824.41 | $6,480.00 – $8,099.19 |