Rpl tun-cvad w subq pump at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$2,427.82
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.
$7,330.41
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.
$5,277.90 with Aetna vs $26,958.98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $5,277.90 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,497.81 | ↑ +126% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $6,127.04 | ↑ +152% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6,127.04 | ↑ +152% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $6,188.31 | ↑ +155% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $6,310.85 | ↑ +160% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $6,310.85 | ↑ +160% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $6,310.85 | ↑ +160% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $6,441.62 | ↑ +165% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $6,555.93 | ↑ +170% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $6,617.20 | ↑ +173% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6,617.20 | ↑ +173% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $6,630.00 | ↑ +173% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $6,678.47 | ↑ +175% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $7,046.10 | ↑ +190% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $11,530.44 | ↑ +375% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $11,763.92 | ↑ +385% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $12,131.54 | ↑ +400% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $12,254.08 | ↑ +405% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $12,720.99 | ↑ +424% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $13,581.45 | ↑ +459% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $13,984.77 | ↑ +476% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $15,384.33 | ↑ +534% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $15,573.20 | ↑ +541% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18,389.42 | ↑ +657% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $19,333.92 | ↑ +696% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $20,351.78 | ↑ +738% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20,351.78 | ↑ +738% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $22,915.13 | ↑ +844% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26,958.98 | ↑ +1010% |
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Rpl tun-cvad w subq pump at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,552.19 – $40,424.21 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,559.96 – $26,710.80 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $12,560.00 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $3,235.27 | $4,618.16 – $24,223.69 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $2,238.39 | $3,152.08 – $6,597.37 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $2,229.54 | $5,277.90 – $13,984.77 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $2,590.31 | $1,246.17 – $6,597.37 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $7,725.99 | $13.84 – $3,066.93 |