Echo transesophageal at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$613.60
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.
$1,534.00
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.
$314.92 with Molina vs $1,843.03 with Premera — 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 | $314.92 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $333.44 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $355.05 | ↓ -42% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $355.05 | ↓ -42% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $365.86 | ↓ -40% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $639.08 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $651.87 | ↑ +6% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $658.26 | ↑ +7% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $671.04 | ↑ +9% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $671.04 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $671.04 | ↑ +9% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $677.43 | ↑ +10% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $715.77 | ↑ +17% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $751.66 | ↑ +23% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $881.29 | ↑ +44% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,022.53 | ↑ +67% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,092.83 | ↑ +78% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,259.41 | ↑ +105% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,303.90 | ↑ +113% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,303.90 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,314.64 | ↑ +114% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,314.64 | ↑ +114% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $1,398.70 | ↑ +128% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $1,444.74 | ↑ +135% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,545.75 | ↑ +152% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,659.68 | ↑ +170% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,717.01 | ↑ +180% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,717.50 | ↑ +180% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,717.50 | ↑ +180% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,717.50 | ↑ +180% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,843.03 | ↑ +200% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,843.03 | ↑ +200% |
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Echo transesophageal at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $283.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,504.96 | $632.74 – $2,263.43 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,934.10 | $608.89 – $1,733.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,504.96 | $632.74 – $2,191.19 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,504.96 | $520.63 – $2,263.43 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $283.50 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,715.00 | $423.40 – $1,882.98 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,138.18 | $1,624.69 – $2,371.25 |