Srs linear based at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$6,812.84
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.
$20,570.30
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.
$8,664.57 with SoundPath vs $38,124.11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $8,664.57 | ↑ +27% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8,664.57 | ↑ +27% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $8,751.22 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $8,924.51 | ↑ +31% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8,924.51 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $8,924.51 | ↑ +31% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9,271.09 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9,357.74 | ↑ +37% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $9,357.74 | ↑ +37% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $9,444.38 | ↑ +39% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $9,638.54 | ↑ +41% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $9,964.26 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $12,342.18 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $14,810.62 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $15,427.73 | ↑ +126% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $15,495.93 | ↑ +127% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $16,635.97 | ↑ +144% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $17,155.85 | ↑ +152% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $17,329.14 | ↑ +154% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $18,026.48 | ↑ +165% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $19,245.80 | ↑ +182% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $20,925.27 | ↑ +207% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $22,068.24 | ↑ +224% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $23,019.41 | ↑ +238% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26,059.00 | ↑ +282% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $27,341.14 | ↑ +301% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $28,780.55 | ↑ +322% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28,780.55 | ↑ +322% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $32,405.49 | ↑ +376% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38,124.11 | ↑ +460% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Srs linear based at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $12,774.40 | $4,209.80 – $60,486.33 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $12,774.40 | $4,230.88 – $35,607.34 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $36,225.12 | $8,528.93 – $38,679.54 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $9,884.70 | $8,207.47 – $24,621.47 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $36,225.12 | $8,528.93 – $37,249.90 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $36,225.12 | $3,873.72 – $38,679.54 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $26,240.00 | $7,645.00 – $7,645.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $34,338.20 | $8,528.93 – $46,463.10 |