Crystal identification light microscopy at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$21.20
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.
$53.00
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.
$6.52 with Molina vs $45.42 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 | $6.52 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $6.90 | ↓ -67% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $7.35 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $7.35 | ↓ -65% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $7.57 | ↓ -64% |
| Regence | RealValue | $7.59 | ↓ -64% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $7.69 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $7.85 | ↓ -63% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $7.92 | ↓ -63% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $8.06 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $8.08 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $8.08 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $8.08 | ↓ -62% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $8.16 | ↓ -62% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $8.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $8.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Regence | Commercial | $8.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $8.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $8.62 | ↓ -59% |
| Premera | Prime | $9.16 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Signature | $9.16 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $9.16 | ↓ -57% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $11.18 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $12.31 | ↓ -42% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $13.16 | ↓ -38% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $18.33 | ↓ -14% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $25.97 | ↑ +23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $43.51 | ↑ +105% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $45.05 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $45.05 | ↑ +113% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $45.42 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $45.42 | ↑ +114% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $101.43 | $7.33 – $8.06 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $62.30 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $39.36 | $6.60 – $34.45 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $239.40 | $7.33 – $26.39 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $39.36 | $6.60 – $33.35 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $39.36 | $6.60 – $34.45 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $88.00 | $31.00 – $31.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $88.40 | $7.33 – $45.67 |