Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid at MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1053373480
$79.60
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.
$199.00
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.
$53.73 with SCAN vs $311.74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $53.73 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna Sterling | MedAdvantage | $54.81 | ↓ -31% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $55.35 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $56.42 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $56.42 | ↓ -29% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $56.42 | ↓ -29% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $56.96 | ↓ -28% |
| Kaiser | MedAdvantage | $60.18 | ↓ -24% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $75.40 | ↓ -5% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $79.83 | ↑ +0% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $85.01 | ↑ +7% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $85.01 | ↑ +7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $85.97 | ↑ +8% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $87.60 | ↑ +10% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $91.88 | ↑ +15% |
| Riverside Christian | Commercial | $97.51 | ↑ +23% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $128.79 | ↑ +62% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $163.38 | ↑ +105% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $169.15 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $169.15 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $170.54 | ↑ +114% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $170.54 | ↑ +114% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $185.59 | ↑ +133% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $211.12 | ↑ +165% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $257.91 | ↑ +224% |
| Regence | RealValue | $267.83 | ↑ +236% |
| Regence | Commercial | $297.59 | ↑ +274% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $297.59 | ↑ +274% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $297.59 | ↑ +274% |
| Premera | Prime | $311.74 | ↑ +292% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $311.74 | ↑ +292% |
| Premera | Signature | $311.74 | ↑ +292% |
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Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $286.65 | $58.38 – $64.22 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $197.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $262.56 | $46.70 – $177.36 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $911.40 | $58.38 – $148.58 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $262.56 | $46.70 – $211.12 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $262.56 | $46.70 – $133.71 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $228.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $537.60 | $58.38 – $108.00 |