Ustekinumab 130 mg/26 ml intravenous solution at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$12,475.55
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.
$37,668.00
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.
$12.62 with BCBS - Premera vs $14,125.50 with MultiPlan — 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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| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $12.62 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.62 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.76 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $12.76 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $12.76 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $12.88 | ↓ -100% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.88 | ↓ -100% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $15.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $15.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $15.21 | ↓ -100% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $15.35 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $15.51 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $15.51 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $15.51 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $16.11 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $16.26 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16.26 | ↓ -100% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $16.42 | ↓ -100% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $17.32 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $27.76 | ↓ -100% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $29.82 | ↓ -100% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $30.12 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $36.74 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $40.42 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $54.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $9,417.00 | ↓ -25% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $13,372.14 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $13,560.48 | ↑ +9% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $14,125.50 | ↑ +13% |
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Ustekinumab 130 mg/26 ml intravenous solution at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $11.39 – $3,430.34 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $6,023.49 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $5,861.52 | $11.62 – $33.21 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,023.49 | $9.84 – $27.68 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,791.73 | $264.79 – $264.79 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $6,526.75 | $11.62 – $82.14 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $5,861.52 | $11.62 – $25.87 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $6,481.16 | $11.62 – $79.64 |