Inj meropenem (wg crit care) at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$312.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$312.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$1.96 with BCBS vs $2,000.00 with BCBS — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | NetworkP | $1.96 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $1.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | OAP | $2.26 | ↓ -99% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $4.16 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $4.16 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CorePayer | $4.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $46.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $46.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $46.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $57.44 | ↓ -82% |
| Ambetter | Select | $72.38 | ↓ -77% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $76.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $78.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $96.72 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $97.34 | ↓ -69% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $140.40 | ↓ -55% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $156.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $171.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $187.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $218.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $234.00 | ↓ -25% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $265.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $287.04 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↑ +541% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Inj meropenem (wg crit care) at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $19.35 | $13.07 – $45.75 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $49.88 | $1.44 – $3.30 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $27.65 | $13.73 – $45.75 |
| 62-0123940 BMH Collierville | Collierville | $45.55 | $1.57 – $3.30 |
| 62-1138045 BMH Union City | Union City | $43.38 | $1.44 – $3.30 |
| HENDERSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER | HENDERSONVILLE | $159.50 | $1.96 – $4.16 |
| HORIZON MEDICAL CENTER | DICKSON | $78.96 | $1.96 – $4.16 |
| NORTHCREST MEDICAL CENTER | SPRINGFIELD | $49.35 | $1.96 – $4.16 |