Set radiation therapy field at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,828.96
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.
$5,522.26
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.
$414.92 with SoundPath vs $4,141.70 with MultiPlan — 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 | $414.92 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $414.92 | ↓ -77% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $419.07 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $427.37 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $427.37 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $427.37 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $443.96 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $448.11 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $448.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $449.58 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $452.26 | ↓ -75% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $477.16 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $661.75 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $796.65 | ↓ -56% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $821.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $829.84 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $855.34 | ↓ -53% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $912.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $913.18 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $976.04 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,047.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,073.72 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,236.47 | ↓ -32% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,309.29 | ↓ -28% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,378.22 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,378.22 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,551.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,825.65 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,976.03 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,141.70 | ↑ +126% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,023.20 | $135.34 – $2,821.33 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,023.20 | $136.02 – $1,797.33 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,476.48 | $433.59 – $1,575.25 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $791.70 | $417.24 – $1,206.58 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,476.48 | $433.59 – $1,524.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,476.48 | $434.80 – $1,575.25 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,920.00 | $367.00 – $367.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,466.92 | $433.59 – $2,088.05 |