Exchange drainage catheter at CHI Memorial Hospital - Georgia
4710 Battlefield Pkwy, Ringgold, GA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1356860621
$288.60
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.
$975.00
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 $4,153.13 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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| Alliant Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $146.25 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network S | $167.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $185.25 | ↓ -36% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $195.00 | ↓ -32% |
| CareSource | Medicaid|All Plans | $195.00 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network P | $217.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $682.50 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $789.75 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $789.75 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $789.75 | ↑ +174% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $1,627.00 | ↑ +464% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $1,627.00 | ↑ +464% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,695.98 | ↑ +488% |
| BCBS - GA | Medicare|BlueCare | $1,746.86 | ↑ +505% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $1,780.78 | ↑ +517% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $1,797.74 | ↑ +523% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,814.70 | ↑ +529% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,865.58 | ↑ +546% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,204.00 | ↑ +664% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $2,496.00 | ↑ +765% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|Pathway | $2,776.28 | ↑ +862% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $2,900.13 | ↑ +905% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $3,073.00 | ↑ +965% |
| Health One Alliance | Commercial|All Plans | $3,196.00 | ↑ +1007% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|HMO | $4,153.13 | ↑ +1339% |
| BCBS - GA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,153.13 | ↑ +1339% |
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Exchange drainage catheter at other Georgia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Wellstar Cobb Hospital | Austell | $1,325.61 | $1,949.06 – $5,272.00 |
| Wellstar Douglas Hospital | Douglasville | $1,325.61 | $1,931.53 – $5,272.00 |
| Wellstar Kennestone Hospital | Marietta | $1,325.61 | $1,949.06 – $5,272.00 |
| Wellstar MCG Health | Augusta | $1,325.61 | $1,681.57 – $3,295.88 |
| Wellstar North Fulton Hospital | Roswell | $1,325.61 | $1,949.06 – $5,272.00 |
| Wellstar Paulding Hospital | Hiram | $1,325.61 | $1,949.06 – $5,272.00 |
| Wellstar Roosevelt Long Term Acute Care at Warm Springs | P O Box 280 | $1,325.61 | not published |
| Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital | Griffin | $1,325.61 | $1,924.71 – $5,272.00 |