Electrolyte panel at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$1,554.48
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.
$1,554.48
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.
$3.15 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 | $3.15 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $5.58 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | COMM | $5.58 | ↓ -100% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $7.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $7.01 | ↓ -100% |
| United | CorePayer | $7.01 | ↓ -100% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $7.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $7.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $7.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $7.01 | ↓ -100% |
| WellCare | MCR | $7.22 | ↓ -100% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $7.22 | ↓ -100% |
| Ambetter | Select | $7.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMOTMN | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMONonTMN | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| United | VACCN | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $7.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $7.43 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $7.43 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $7.43 | ↓ -100% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $7.57 | ↓ -100% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $7.71 | ↓ -100% |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $7.80 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $7.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $8.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $10.09 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $10.10 | ↓ -99% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $10.30 | ↓ -99% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $10.30 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $10.91 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $12.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | OAP | $14.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | HIX | $21.03 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $28.04 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $28.04 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $28.04 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $28.04 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $29.19 | ↓ -98% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $286.18 | ↓ -82% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $295.35 | ↓ -81% |
| Apex Health | MCR | $295.35 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $295.35 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $379.29 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $388.62 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $481.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $485.00 | ↓ -69% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $699.52 | ↓ -55% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $777.24 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NAP | $777.24 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $854.96 | ↓ -45% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $932.69 | ↓ -40% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $1,088.14 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $1,165.86 | ↓ -25% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $1,321.31 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $1,430.12 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↑ +29% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $56.25 | $2.52 – $27.07 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $160.44 | $6.24 – $379.40 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $126.50 | $6.10 – $14.02 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $229.27 | $6.24 – $379.40 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $12.00 | $3.51 – $15.28 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $56.25 | $4.92 – $27.07 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $56.25 | $4.92 – $27.07 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $56.25 | $4.92 – $27.07 |