Inj. (ani), up to 40 units at Providence St Mary Medical Center
401 W Poplar St, Walla Walla, WA · Providence · · NPI 1386895886
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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.
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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.
$3,480.99 with Blue Shield vs $21,525.64 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Shield | Uniform Other Commercial Plan | $3,480.99 | — |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,571.35 | — |
| Aetna | Gatekeeper Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $3,678.49 | — |
| Aetna | Non-Gatekeeper Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $3,714.21 | — |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,749.92 | — |
| Community Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,928.49 | — |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $5,221.49 | — |
| Community Health Plan | Exchange | $5,714.16 | — |
| Blue Cross | Premera - Lifewise Health Plan Of Washington Affordable Care Network Other Commercial Plan | $6,428.43 | — |
| Coordinated Care | Exchange | $6,607.00 | — |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature All Commercial Plans | $6,697.98 | — |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $6,697.98 | — |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $7,631.46 | — |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $10,506.91 | — |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $21,525.64 | — |
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Inj. (ani), up to 40 units at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $3,480.99 – $10,849.76 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | not published | $2,612.21 – $9,089.09 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | not published | $3,480.99 – $8,356.96 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | not published | $3,480.99 – $7,928.40 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | not published | $3,480.99 – $22,103.09 |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | not published | $3,571.35 – $9,071.23 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | not published | $3,348.99 – $6,607.00 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | not published | $3,348.99 – $9,374.80 |