Xylose absorption test blood &/or urine at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$62.97
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.
$190.10
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.
$12.91 with Kaiser vs $142.58 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.91 | ↓ -79% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $12.91 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $12.91 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $13.04 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $13.30 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13.30 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $13.56 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $13.72 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13.81 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $13.94 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $14.07 | ↓ -78% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $14.85 | ↓ -76% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $14.85 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $15.49 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.49 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $15.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $19.37 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.37 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $21.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $24.79 | ↓ -61% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $25.56 | ↓ -59% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $25.82 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $48.28 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $56.80 | ↓ -10% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $71.99 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $87.76 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $136.88 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $142.58 | ↑ +126% |
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Xylose absorption test blood &/or urine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $8.59 – $30.49 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | not published | $8.63 – $25.30 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $119.70 | $12.91 – $46.48 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $57.60 | $10.00 – $10.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $275.80 | not published |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $224.70 | $12.91 – $55.11 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $20.80 | $13.37 – $23.17 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $83.91 | $12.91 – $171.09 |