Triamcinolone a inj prs-free at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$31.40
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.
$94.80
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.
$11.85 with Cigna vs $55.56 with Sound Family Medicine — 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $11.85 | ↓ -62% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $14.17 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $17.07 | ↓ -46% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $17.78 | ↓ -43% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $27.78 | ↓ -12% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $27.78 | ↓ -12% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $28.06 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $28.61 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $28.61 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $28.61 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $29.72 | ↓ -5% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $30.00 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $30.00 | ↓ -4% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $30.28 | ↓ -4% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $31.95 | ↑ +2% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $55.00 | ↑ +75% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $55.56 | ↑ +77% |
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Triamcinolone a inj prs-free at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $29.28 | $18.40 – $115.84 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $18.96 – $209.97 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $60.12 | $4.70 – $34.74 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $60.12 | $4.70 – $34.74 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $60.12 | $4.70 – $34.74 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $60.12 | $4.70 – $34.74 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $41.84 | $7.72 – $21.33 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $28.95 | $10.20 – $21.33 |