Venous mech thrombectomy at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$7,474.70
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.
$22,568.68
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.
$12,853.86 with Kaiser vs $56,556.98 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12,853.86 | ↑ +72% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $12,853.86 | ↑ +72% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $12,982.40 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $13,239.48 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $13,239.48 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13,239.48 | ↑ +77% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $13,304.10 | ↑ +78% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13,753.63 | ↑ +84% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13,882.17 | ↑ +86% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $13,882.17 | ↑ +86% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $14,010.71 | ↑ +87% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $14,781.94 | ↑ +98% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $15,591.87 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $16,249.45 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $16,415.00 | ↑ +120% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $16,926.51 | ↑ +126% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $24,679.41 | ↑ +230% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $25,450.64 | ↑ +240% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $25,466.21 | ↑ +241% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $25,707.72 | ↑ +244% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $27,188.77 | ↑ +264% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $28,883.20 | ↑ +286% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $31,176.05 | ↑ +317% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $31,773.75 | ↑ +325% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36,813.85 | ↑ +393% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $40,560.44 | ↑ +443% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $42,695.80 | ↑ +471% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42,695.80 | ↑ +471% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $48,073.44 | ↑ +543% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $56,556.98 | ↑ +657% |
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Venous mech thrombectomy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $4,083.20 | $2,527.02 – $83,489.41 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $4,083.20 | $2,539.67 – $55,414.74 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $14,199.36 | $7,277.00 – $40,612.14 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $8,503.60 | $12,864.20 – $32,739.40 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $14,199.36 | $7,277.00 – $31,281.24 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $14,199.36 | $7,277.00 – $29,760.34 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $8,379.00 | $9,748.08 – $23,798.77 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $6,916.70 | $655.76 – $23,798.77 |