Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$4,686.65
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.
$4,686.65
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.
$108.35 with BCBS vs $4,311.72 with Beech Street — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $108.35 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $117.02 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $283.57 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $313.13 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $478.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | OAP | $543.73 | ↓ -88% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $796.73 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar | HIX | $857.66 | ↓ -82% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $862.81 | ↓ -82% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $890.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Apex Health | MCR | $890.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $890.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $1,045.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Ambetter | Select | $1,087.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $1,124.80 | ↓ -76% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $1,143.54 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $1,171.66 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $1,264.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $1,452.86 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,462.23 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | COMM | $1,482.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $2,108.99 | ↓ -55% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $2,343.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NAP | $2,343.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $2,577.66 | ↓ -45% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $2,811.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $3,280.66 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $3,514.99 | ↓ -25% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $3,983.65 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $4,311.72 | ↓ -8% |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $461.81 | $108.35 – $436.96 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $760.72 | $132.73 – $1,799.00 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $471.27 | $108.35 – $441.44 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $1,087.11 | $132.73 – $1,799.00 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $229.50 | $114.91 – $485.38 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $571.19 | $76.07 – $436.96 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $571.19 | $76.07 – $436.96 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $571.17 | $76.07 – $436.96 |