Reteplase injection at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$5,299.17
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.
$16,000.00
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.
$2,685.42 with Uniform Medical Plan vs $13,849.97 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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| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,685.42 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $2,685.42 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,768.37 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $2,768.37 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,777.14 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,777.14 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,777.14 | ↓ -48% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $3,184.35 | ↓ -40% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $3,292.16 | ↓ -38% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,292.16 | ↓ -38% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $3,325.08 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $3,390.92 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $3,390.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,390.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,522.61 | ↓ -34% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3,555.53 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,555.53 | ↓ -33% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $3,588.45 | ↓ -32% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $3,785.98 | ↓ -29% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $6,043.62 | ↑ +14% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $6,518.48 | ↑ +23% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $6,584.32 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $8,000.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $8,206.18 | ↑ +55% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $9,026.96 | ↑ +70% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $9,327.49 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $11,520.00 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $11,772.47 | ↑ +122% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $12,000.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13,849.97 | ↑ +161% |
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Reteplase injection at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $2,931.88 – $21,518.17 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $2,846.48 – $12,667.40 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $7,061.57 | $5,370.85 – $14,400.00 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $4,885.69 | $6,880.00 – $14,400.00 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $4,866.38 | $8,000.00 – $12,000.00 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $5,653.83 | $2,720.00 – $14,400.00 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $5,021.17 | $8,000.00 – $12,000.00 |
| St. Clare Hospital | Lakewood | $4,611.86 | $8,000.00 – $12,000.00 |