Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$1,415.67
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.
$1,415.67
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.
$15.79 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 | $15.79 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $27.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | COMM | $27.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $35.09 | ↓ -98% |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $35.09 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $35.09 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $35.09 | ↓ -98% |
| United | CorePayer | $35.09 | ↓ -98% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $35.09 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $35.09 | ↓ -98% |
| WellCare | MCR | $36.14 | ↓ -97% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $36.14 | ↓ -97% |
| Ambetter | Select | $36.49 | ↓ -97% |
| United | VACCN | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMONonTMN | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMOTMN | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $36.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $37.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $37.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $37.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $37.90 | ↓ -97% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $38.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $39.06 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $40.84 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $42.37 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $44.11 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $47.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $50.53 | ↓ -96% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $51.58 | ↓ -96% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $51.58 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $62.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | OAP | $70.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Oscar | HIX | $105.27 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $118.03 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $140.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $140.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $140.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $140.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $260.62 | ↓ -82% |
| Apex Health | MCR | $268.98 | ↓ -81% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $268.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $268.98 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $345.42 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $353.92 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $438.86 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $441.69 | ↓ -69% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $637.05 | ↓ -55% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $707.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NAP | $707.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $778.62 | ↓ -45% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $849.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $990.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $1,061.75 | ↓ -25% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $1,203.32 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $1,302.42 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↑ +41% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $1,093.32 | $12.63 – $135.44 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $87.03 | $31.18 – $117.60 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $25.30 | $30.53 – $70.18 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $124.37 | $31.18 – $117.60 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $61.50 | $17.55 – $76.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $1,093.32 | $24.61 – $135.44 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $1,093.32 | $24.61 – $135.44 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $1,093.32 | $31.58 – $135.44 |