Tc-99m bicisate at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$1,116.75
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.
$3,371.85
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.
$683.80 with United vs $3,410.22 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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| United | Commercial|Navigate | $683.80 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $683.80 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $683.80 | ↓ -39% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $683.80 | ↓ -39% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $683.80 | ↓ -39% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $775.05 | ↓ -31% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $775.05 | ↓ -31% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $782.80 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $798.30 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $798.30 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $798.30 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $829.30 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $837.05 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $837.05 | ↓ -25% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $844.80 | ↓ -24% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $891.31 | ↓ -20% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,488.10 | ↑ +33% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,534.60 | ↑ +37% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,550.10 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,427.74 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,528.89 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,898.69 | ↑ +160% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,410.22 | ↑ +205% |
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Tc-99m bicisate at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $3,801.60 | $775.52 – $1,572.74 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,801.60 | $760.01 – $1,572.74 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $3,027.60 | $775.52 – $1,538.55 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $3,545.60 | $775.21 – $1,299.62 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,488.16 | $2,124.27 – $3,034.67 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,029.62 | $1,449.90 – $3,034.67 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $1,025.55 | $2,427.74 – $2,528.89 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $3,801.60 | $760.01 – $1,572.74 |