Brachy source palladium at CHI Memorial Hospital - Georgia
4710 Battlefield Pkwy, Ringgold, GA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1356860621
$40.85
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.
$138.00
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.
$20.70 with Peach State vs $152.58 with BCBS - GA — 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 |
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| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $20.70 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.22 | ↓ -36% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.60 | ↓ -32% |
| CareSource | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.60 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $48.30 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $55.20 | ↑ +35% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $62.10 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $62.31 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - GA | Medicare|BlueCare | $64.18 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $65.43 | ↑ +60% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $66.05 | ↑ +62% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $66.67 | ↑ +63% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $68.54 | ↑ +68% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $82.80 | ↑ +103% |
| Alliant Health | Commercial|All Plans | $88.32 | ↑ +116% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $96.60 | ↑ +136% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $106.55 | ↑ +161% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $111.78 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $111.78 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $111.78 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|Pathway | $116.67 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $152.58 | ↑ +274% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|HMO | $152.58 | ↑ +274% |