Trnsfr/rearrngmnt adjcnt tiss any area 30.1-60sqcm at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$2,152.64
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.
$6,499.54
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.
$4,077.01 with Seattle Medical Group vs $18,257.76 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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| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $4,077.01 | ↑ +89% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,149.49 | ↑ +93% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $4,149.49 | ↑ +93% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $4,190.98 | ↑ +95% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $4,273.97 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $4,273.97 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,273.97 | ↑ +99% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,439.95 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,481.45 | ↑ +108% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4,481.45 | ↑ +108% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4,522.94 | ↑ +110% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $4,679.67 | ↑ +117% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $4,771.91 | ↑ +122% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,874.66 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $7,967.02 | ↑ +270% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $8,102.76 | ↑ +276% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $8,215.99 | ↑ +282% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $8,298.98 | ↑ +286% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $8,304.88 | ↑ +286% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $8,851.20 | ↑ +311% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,866.62 | ↑ +312% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $9,737.00 | ↑ +352% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $10,166.93 | ↑ +372% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12,005.50 | ↑ +458% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $13,093.74 | ↑ +508% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $13,783.08 | ↑ +540% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13,783.08 | ↑ +540% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $15,519.09 | ↑ +621% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $16,415.00 | ↑ +663% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18,257.76 | ↑ +748% |
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Trnsfr/rearrngmnt adjcnt tiss any area 30.1-60sqcm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,383.82 – $25,585.16 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $1,390.75 – $17,010.70 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $6,262.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $8,669.76 | $4,103.60 – $13,993.26 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $7,089.60 | $3,948.93 – $10,050.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $8,669.76 | $4,103.60 – $13,546.67 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $8,669.76 | $4,115.11 – $13,993.26 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $6,796.40 | $4,103.60 – $17,417.15 |