Transcath closure of vsd at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$6,879.88
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.
$20,772.73
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.
$6,725.00 with Cigna vs $89,552.58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $6,725.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $14,956.37 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $15,579.55 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $20,352.86 | ↑ +196% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $20,352.86 | ↑ +196% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $20,556.39 | ↑ +199% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $20,963.45 | ↑ +205% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $20,963.45 | ↑ +205% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $20,963.45 | ↑ +205% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $21,528.56 | ↑ +213% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $21,777.56 | ↑ +217% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $21,981.09 | ↑ +219% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $21,981.09 | ↑ +219% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $22,184.62 | ↑ +222% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $23,405.79 | ↑ +240% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $39,077.49 | ↑ +468% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $40,298.66 | ↑ +486% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $40,591.44 | ↑ +490% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $40,705.72 | ↑ +492% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $43,337.09 | ↑ +530% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $46,738.53 | ↑ +579% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $49,692.55 | ↑ +622% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $51,415.99 | ↑ +647% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $58,678.82 | ↑ +753% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $64,223.63 | ↑ +833% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $65,360.31 | ↑ +850% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $67,604.78 | ↑ +883% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67,604.78 | ↑ +883% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $76,119.70 | ↑ +1006% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89,552.58 | ↑ +1202% |
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Transcath closure of vsd at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $36,396.80 | $7,141.83 – $135,101.82 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $36,396.80 | $7,177.59 – $87,996.08 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $23,036.64 | $21,227.85 – $77,627.65 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $24,689.00 | $20,427.76 – $51,988.64 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $23,036.64 | $21,227.85 – $74,758.46 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $23,036.64 | $16,968.00 – $77,627.65 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $24,746.40 | $6,855.87 – $76,440.32 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $9,168.01 | $13,086.82 – $80,958.03 |