Skin Biopsy at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$134.36
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.
$405.66
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.
$225.21 with SoundPath vs $990.92 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $225.21 | ↑ +68% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $225.21 | ↑ +68% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $226.32 | ↑ +68% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $227.46 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $231.97 | ↑ +73% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $231.97 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $231.97 | ↑ +73% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $240.97 | ↑ +79% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $243.23 | ↑ +81% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $243.23 | ↑ +81% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $245.48 | ↑ +83% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $258.99 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $292.08 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $304.25 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $432.40 | ↑ +222% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $445.92 | ↑ +232% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $450.42 | ↑ +235% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $463.43 | ↑ +245% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $491.34 | ↑ +266% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $494.79 | ↑ +268% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $540.51 | ↑ +302% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $567.35 | ↑ +322% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $669.93 | ↑ +399% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $710.68 | ↑ +429% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $748.10 | ↑ +457% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $748.10 | ↑ +457% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $842.29 | ↑ +527% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $990.92 | ↑ +638% |
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Skin Biopsy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $288.80 | $314.86 – $1,420.26 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $288.80 | $316.43 – $1,951.35 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $269.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $617.76 | $470.74 – $1,430.11 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $590.80 | $402.13 – $1,152.88 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $617.76 | $470.74 – $1,101.53 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $617.76 | $442.69 – $1,047.98 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $539.24 | $470.74 – $1,022.17 |