Smear wet mount at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
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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.
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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.
$2.62 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 |
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| Wellpoint | MGMCD | $2.62 | — |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $4.63 | — |
| Aetna | COMM | $4.63 | — |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $5.61 | — |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $5.82 | — |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $5.82 | — |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $5.82 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $5.82 | — |
| United | CorePayer | $5.82 | — |
| United | HeritageSelect | $5.82 | — |
| Bright Health | HIX | $5.82 | — |
| WellCare | MCR | $5.99 | — |
| Zing | MGMCR | $5.99 | — |
| Ambetter | Select | $6.05 | — |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $6.11 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $6.11 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $6.11 | — |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $6.11 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $6.11 | — |
| United | VACCN | $6.11 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $6.11 | — |
| Healthspring | MCRHMOTMN | $6.11 | — |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $6.11 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $6.11 | — |
| Healthspring | MCRHMONonTMN | $6.11 | — |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $6.17 | — |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $6.17 | — |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $6.17 | — |
| Ambetter | CORE | $6.28 | — |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $6.40 | — |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $6.48 | — |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $6.78 | — |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $7.03 | — |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $7.32 | — |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $8.28 | — |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $8.38 | — |
| Apex Health | MCR | $8.55 | — |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $8.55 | — |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $8.55 | — |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $8.56 | — |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $8.56 | — |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $10.39 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $10.98 | — |
| Humana | TRICARE | $11.25 | — |
| Cigna | OAP | $11.80 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $13.95 | — |
| Cigna | PPO | $14.04 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $17.46 | — |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $19.59 | — |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $20.25 | — |
| Aetna | NAP | $22.50 | — |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $22.50 | — |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $23.28 | — |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $23.28 | — |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $23.28 | — |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $23.28 | — |
| Multiplan | COMM | $24.75 | — |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $27.00 | — |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $31.50 | — |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $33.75 | — |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $38.25 | — |
| Beech Street | COMM | $41.40 | — |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $42.57 | $2.10 – $18.06 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $67.49 | $3.79 – $159.60 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $21.62 | $5.06 – $11.64 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $96.45 | $3.79 – $159.60 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $7.20 | $2.91 – $12.69 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $42.57 | $3.00 – $18.06 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $42.57 | $3.00 – $18.06 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $42.57 | $3.00 – $18.06 |