Brain MRI (with contrast) at CHI Memorial Hospital - Georgia
4710 Battlefield Pkwy, Ringgold, GA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1356860621
$1,736.04
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.
$5,865.00
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.
$319.29 with Aetna vs $2,459.00 with Health One Alliance — 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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| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $319.29 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - GA | Medicare|BlueCare | $328.87 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $335.25 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $338.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $341.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $351.22 | ↓ -80% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $429.59 | ↓ -75% |
| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $439.95 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network S | $469.07 | ↓ -73% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $545.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $557.27 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $561.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $561.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|Pathway | $561.11 | ↓ -68% |
| CareSource | Medicaid|All Plans | $586.60 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $586.60 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network P | $592.39 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $781.88 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|HMO | $781.88 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $1,181.00 | ↓ -32% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $1,181.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,759.80 | ↑ +1% |
| Alliant Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,787.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,375.73 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,375.73 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,375.73 | ↑ +37% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,422.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Health One Alliance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,459.00 | ↑ +42% |
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Brain MRI (with contrast) at other Georgia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Wellstar Cobb Hospital | Austell | $1,983.93 | $354.36 – $655.56 |
| Wellstar Douglas Hospital | Douglasville | $1,983.93 | $351.17 – $649.66 |
| Wellstar Kennestone Hospital | Marietta | $1,983.93 | $354.36 – $655.56 |
| Wellstar MCG Health | Augusta | $1,983.93 | $305.72 – $635.41 |
| Wellstar North Fulton Hospital | Roswell | $1,983.93 | $354.36 – $655.56 |
| Wellstar Paulding Hospital | Hiram | $1,983.93 | $354.36 – $655.56 |
| Wellstar Roosevelt Long Term Acute Care at Warm Springs | P O Box 280 | $1,983.93 | not published |
| Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital | Griffin | $1,983.93 | $349.93 – $685.86 |