Culture body fluid at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$62.40
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.
$156.00
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.
$4.89 with Molina vs $133.69 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 | $4.89 | ↓ -92% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $5.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $5.51 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $5.51 | ↓ -91% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $5.68 | ↓ -91% |
| Regence | RealValue | $8.92 | ↓ -86% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $9.05 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $9.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $9.32 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $9.48 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $9.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $9.50 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $9.50 | ↓ -85% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $9.59 | ↓ -85% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $9.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $9.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Regence | Commercial | $9.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $9.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $10.13 | ↓ -84% |
| Premera | Prime | $10.77 | ↓ -83% |
| Premera | Signature | $10.77 | ↓ -83% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $10.77 | ↓ -83% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $13.15 | ↓ -79% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $14.48 | ↓ -77% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $15.47 | ↓ -75% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $21.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $76.44 | ↑ +23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $128.08 | ↑ +105% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $132.60 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $132.60 | ↑ +113% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $133.69 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $133.69 | ↑ +114% |
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Culture body fluid at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $267.12 | $8.62 – $9.48 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $127.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $54.24 | $7.76 – $40.51 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $379.40 | $8.62 – $31.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $54.24 | $7.76 – $39.22 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $54.24 | $7.76 – $40.51 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $111.20 | $7.00 – $7.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $278.20 | $8.62 – $53.70 |