Rev/rmv perph nstim eltrd ra at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$2,476.37
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.
$7,477.00
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.
$3,897.91 with Kaiser vs $17,150.80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,897.91 | ↑ +57% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $3,897.91 | ↑ +57% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $3,936.89 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $4,014.85 | ↑ +62% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $4,014.85 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,014.85 | ↑ +62% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $4,070.30 | ↑ +64% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,170.76 | ↑ +68% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,209.74 | ↑ +70% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4,209.74 | ↑ +70% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4,248.72 | ↑ +72% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $4,482.60 | ↑ +81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $5,383.44 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,607.75 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $7,483.99 | ↑ +202% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $7,717.86 | ↑ +212% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $7,795.82 | ↑ +215% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $7,876.39 | ↑ +218% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $7,955.82 | ↑ +221% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,409.16 | ↑ +240% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $8,836.61 | ↑ +257% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $9,642.38 | ↑ +289% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $9,720.96 | ↑ +293% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,386.08 | ↑ +360% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $12,299.88 | ↑ +397% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $12,947.43 | ↑ +423% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12,947.43 | ↑ +423% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $14,578.18 | ↑ +489% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,150.80 | ↑ +593% |
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Rev/rmv perph nstim eltrd ra at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $2,652.32 – $25,543.00 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $2,665.60 – $16,782.12 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $3,299.96 | $4,710.51 – $15,306.32 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $2,283.15 | $3,215.11 – $6,729.30 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $2,274.12 | $5,383.44 – $8,836.61 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $2,642.11 | $1,271.09 – $6,729.30 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $4,329.39 | $7.49 – $816.93 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $2,346.46 | $5,383.44 – $8,836.61 |