Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$1,797.60
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.
$4,494.00
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.
$302.80 with Molina vs $3,851.36 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 | $302.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $320.62 | ↓ -82% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $341.40 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $341.40 | ↓ -81% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $351.79 | ↓ -80% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $408.04 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $416.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $420.28 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $428.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $428.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $428.44 | ↓ -76% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $432.52 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $457.01 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $652.86 | ↓ -64% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $697.75 | ↓ -61% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $698.79 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,024.24 | ↓ -43% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,077.55 | ↓ -40% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,145.55 | ↓ -36% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,156.97 | ↓ -36% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,196.94 | ↓ -33% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,197.28 | ↓ -33% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,197.28 | ↓ -33% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,197.28 | ↓ -33% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,284.79 | ↓ -29% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,284.79 | ↓ -29% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $2,202.06 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,600.00 | ↑ +45% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,689.57 | ↑ +105% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,819.90 | ↑ +113% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3,851.36 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,851.36 | ↑ +114% |
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Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,678.32 | $374.48 – $427.64 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $3,643.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,218.56 | $403.99 – $1,794.70 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $4,224.50 | $388.77 – $1,374.66 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,218.56 | $403.99 – $1,737.42 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,218.56 | $405.13 – $1,794.70 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,800.00 | $358.00 – $358.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,512.16 | $403.99 – $2,378.93 |