(both sides) smear without diff wbc count at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$3.20
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.
$8.00
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.
$3.55 with Regence vs $8.58 with First Choice — 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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| Regence | RealValue | $3.55 | ↑ +11% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $3.60 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $3.67 | ↑ +15% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $3.71 | ↑ +16% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $3.77 | ↑ +18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $3.78 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $3.78 | ↑ +18% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $3.78 | ↑ +18% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $3.82 | ↑ +19% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $3.83 | ↑ +20% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $3.92 | ↑ +23% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $3.94 | ↑ +23% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $3.94 | ↑ +23% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3.94 | ↑ +23% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $3.94 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $4.03 | ↑ +26% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4.06 | ↑ +27% |
| Premera | Signature | $4.29 | ↑ +34% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $4.29 | ↑ +34% |
| Premera | Prime | $4.29 | ↑ +34% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4.32 | ↑ +35% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4.32 | ↑ +35% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $4.45 | ↑ +39% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5.23 | ↑ +63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $5.76 | ↑ +80% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $6.16 | ↑ +93% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $6.57 | ↑ +105% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6.80 | ↑ +113% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $6.80 | ↑ +113% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $6.86 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $6.86 | ↑ +114% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $8.58 | ↑ +168% |
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(both sides) smear without diff wbc count at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $18.90 | $3.43 – $3.77 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $35.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $22.56 | $3.09 – $16.12 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $21.00 | $3.43 – $12.35 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $22.56 | $3.09 – $15.61 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $22.56 | $3.09 – $16.12 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $15.20 | $3.00 – $3.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $9.80 | not published |