Brachy src nonstrand hdr ir-192 at CHI Memorial Hospital - Georgia
4710 Battlefield Pkwy, Ringgold, GA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1356860621
$296.00
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.
$1,000.00
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.
$150.00 with Peach State vs $810.00 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 |
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| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $150.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $190.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $200.00 | ↓ -32% |
| CareSource | Medicaid|All Plans | $200.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $306.11 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - GA | Medicare|BlueCare | $315.29 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $321.42 | ↑ +9% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $324.48 | ↑ +10% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $327.54 | ↑ +11% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $336.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $350.00 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $400.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $450.00 | ↑ +52% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $523.45 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|Pathway | $531.33 | ↑ +80% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $600.00 | ↑ +103% |
| Alliant Health | Commercial|All Plans | $640.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $700.00 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $749.61 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|HMO | $749.61 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $810.00 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $810.00 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $810.00 | ↑ +174% |