Therapy nutrition individual reassessment/intervention f2f w/patient each 15 minutes at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$62.16
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.
$187.67
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.
$18.46 with CHPW vs $351.20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHPW | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.46 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.57 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.75 | ↓ -68% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.61 | ↓ -65% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $31.74 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $31.74 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $32.06 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $32.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $32.69 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $32.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $33.96 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $34.28 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $34.28 | ↓ -45% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $34.60 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $35.81 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.81 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $35.81 | ↓ -42% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $36.50 | ↓ -41% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $37.50 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $38.29 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $39.53 | ↓ -36% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $47.43 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54.04 | ↓ -13% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $60.94 | ↓ -2% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $62.85 | ↑ +1% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $63.48 | ↑ +2% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $74.69 | ↑ +20% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $82.16 | ↑ +32% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $127.04 | ↑ +104% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $135.13 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $140.76 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $271.91 | ↑ +337% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $298.41 | ↑ +380% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $351.20 | ↑ +465% |
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Therapy nutrition individual reassessment/intervention f2f w/patient each 15 minutes at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $47.20 | $18.46 – $215.89 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $47.20 | $18.46 – $127.09 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $30.10 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $96.48 | $18.01 – $68.39 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $96.60 | $22.51 – $57.29 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $96.48 | $18.01 – $87.70 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $96.48 | $18.01 – $55.54 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $37.10 | not published |