Amino acid screen, urine at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$32.40
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.
$81.00
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.
$8.25 with Molina vs $69.42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $8.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $8.73 | ↓ -73% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $9.30 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $9.30 | ↓ -71% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $9.58 | ↓ -70% |
| Regence | RealValue | $14.36 | ↓ -56% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $14.56 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $14.85 | ↓ -54% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $14.99 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $15.26 | ↓ -53% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $15.29 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $15.29 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $15.29 | ↓ -53% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $15.43 | ↓ -52% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $15.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $15.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | Commercial | $15.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $15.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $16.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | Prime | $17.34 | ↓ -46% |
| Premera | Signature | $17.34 | ↓ -46% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $17.34 | ↓ -46% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $21.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $23.29 | ↓ -28% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $24.89 | ↓ -23% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $34.68 | ↑ +7% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $39.69 | ↑ +23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $66.50 | ↑ +105% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $68.85 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $68.85 | ↑ +113% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $69.42 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $69.42 | ↑ +114% |
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Amino acid screen, urine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $62.40 | $10.00 – $10.00 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $166.60 | $13.87 – $59.20 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $34.40 | $8.43 – $27.19 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $34.40 | $8.63 – $27.19 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $40.29 | $9.71 – $43.35 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $63.20 | $9.08 – $25.15 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $34.40 | $8.43 – $27.19 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $34.40 | $8.59 – $30.49 |