Assay of corticosterone at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$36.00
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.
$90.00
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.
$8.54 with Molina vs $77.13 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 | $8.54 | ↓ -76% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $9.04 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $9.63 | ↓ -73% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $9.63 | ↓ -73% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $9.92 | ↓ -72% |
| Regence | RealValue | $23.31 | ↓ -35% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $23.64 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $24.11 | ↓ -33% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $24.35 | ↓ -32% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $24.77 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $24.82 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $24.82 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $24.82 | ↓ -31% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $25.05 | ↓ -30% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $25.90 | ↓ -28% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $25.90 | ↓ -28% |
| Regence | Commercial | $25.90 | ↓ -28% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $25.90 | ↓ -28% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $26.47 | ↓ -26% |
| Premera | Signature | $28.15 | ↓ -22% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $28.15 | ↓ -22% |
| Premera | Prime | $28.15 | ↓ -22% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $34.34 | ↓ -5% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $37.82 | ↑ +5% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $40.42 | ↑ +12% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $44.10 | ↑ +23% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $56.30 | ↑ +56% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $73.89 | ↑ +105% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $76.50 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $76.50 | ↑ +113% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $77.13 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $77.13 | ↑ +114% |
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Assay of corticosterone at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $100.80 | $17.00 – $17.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $116.90 | $22.52 – $41.66 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $36.00 | $8.53 – $40.83 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $69.05 | $22.52 – $140.81 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $47.78 | $22.52 – $140.81 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $47.59 | $22.52 – $136.81 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $36.00 | $8.73 – $44.14 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $36.00 | $8.93 – $44.14 |