Right ventric recording at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,824.78
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.
$5,509.64
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.
$1,375.98 with SoundPath vs $6,725.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $1,375.98 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,375.98 | ↓ -25% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,389.74 | ↓ -24% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $1,400.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,417.26 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $1,417.26 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $1,417.26 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,472.30 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,486.06 | ↓ -19% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,486.06 | ↓ -19% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,499.82 | ↓ -18% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,582.38 | ↓ -13% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $2,641.88 | ↑ +45% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $2,724.44 | ↑ +49% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $2,751.96 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $2,755.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,941.35 | ↑ +61% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $3,039.41 | ↑ +67% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $3,343.58 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $3,372.71 | ↑ +85% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $3,596.53 | ↑ +97% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,966.95 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,982.61 | ↑ +118% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,132.23 | ↑ +126% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $4,341.94 | ↑ +138% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,570.52 | ↑ +150% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $4,570.52 | ↑ +150% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $5,146.17 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,054.31 | ↑ +232% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $6,725.00 | ↑ +269% |
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Right ventric recording at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,434.30 – $15,545.55 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,392.52 – $5,844.47 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,106.08 | $1,409.90 – $4,809.42 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,454.70 | $1,356.76 – $3,452.95 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,106.08 | $1,409.90 – $4,631.66 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,106.08 | $1,413.85 – $4,809.42 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $1,775.28 | $1,386.54 – $3,742.85 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $2,431.67 | $3,471.08 – $5,264.70 |