Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$1,241.37
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.
$1,241.37
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.
$7.55 with Wellpoint vs $2,000.00 with BCBS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | MGMCD | $7.55 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $13.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMM | $13.33 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $16.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $16.77 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CorePayer | $16.77 | ↓ -99% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $16.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $16.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $16.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $16.77 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCR | $17.27 | ↓ -99% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $17.27 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | Select | $17.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMOTMN | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMONonTMN | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| United | VACCN | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $17.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $17.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $17.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $17.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $18.11 | ↓ -99% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $18.45 | ↓ -99% |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $18.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $20.25 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $22.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $24.15 | ↓ -98% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $24.65 | ↓ -98% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $24.65 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $27.38 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $29.57 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $29.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | OAP | $34.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Oscar | HIX | $50.31 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $67.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $67.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $67.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $67.08 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $79.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $228.54 | ↓ -82% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $235.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Apex Health | MCR | $235.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $235.86 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $302.89 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $310.34 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $384.82 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $387.31 | ↓ -69% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $558.62 | ↓ -55% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $620.68 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NAP | $620.68 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $682.75 | ↓ -45% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $744.82 | ↓ -40% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $868.96 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $931.03 | ↓ -25% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $1,055.16 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $1,142.06 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↑ +61% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $80.12 | $6.04 – $65.46 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $27.24 | $14.90 – $64.40 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $67.62 | $14.59 – $33.54 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $38.92 | $14.90 – $64.40 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $29.40 | $8.39 – $36.56 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $80.12 | $11.76 – $65.46 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $80.12 | $11.76 – $65.46 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $80.12 | $11.76 – $65.46 |