Change of windpipe airway 31502 at CHI Memorial Hospital - Georgia
4710 Battlefield Pkwy, Ringgold, GA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1356860621
$227.33
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.
$768.00
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.
$0.65 with Alliant Health vs $3,196.00 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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| Alliant Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $115.20 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $145.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $153.60 | ↓ -32% |
| CareSource | Medicaid|All Plans | $153.60 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network S | $167.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $207.61 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - GA | Medicare|BlueCare | $213.84 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network P | $217.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $217.99 | ↓ -4% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $220.07 | ↓ -3% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $222.14 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $228.37 | ↑ +0% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $355.01 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|Pathway | $356.39 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $479.00 | ↑ +111% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $479.00 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $508.41 | ↑ +124% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|HMO | $508.41 | ↑ +124% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $537.60 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $622.08 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $622.08 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $622.08 | ↑ +174% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $1,331.00 | ↑ +485% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,338.86 | ↑ +489% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $1,638.00 | ↑ +621% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,204.00 | ↑ +870% |
| Health One Alliance | Commercial|All Plans | $3,196.00 | ↑ +1306% |
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Change of windpipe airway 31502 at other Georgia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Wellstar Cobb Hospital | Austell | $624.39 | $240.57 – $2,665.00 |
| Wellstar Douglas Hospital | Douglasville | $624.39 | $238.41 – $2,665.00 |
| Wellstar Kennestone Hospital | Marietta | $624.39 | $240.57 – $2,665.00 |
| Wellstar MCG Health | Augusta | $624.39 | $207.56 – $2,572.00 |
| Wellstar North Fulton Hospital | Roswell | $624.39 | $240.57 – $2,665.00 |
| Wellstar Paulding Hospital | Hiram | $624.39 | $240.57 – $2,665.00 |
| Wellstar Roosevelt Long Term Acute Care at Warm Springs | P O Box 280 | $624.39 | not published |
| Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital | Griffin | $624.39 | $237.57 – $2,665.00 |