Sodium chloride 3 % ivpb at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$136.49
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.
$136.49
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.
$0.15 with Cigna 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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| Cigna | NewBusiness | $0.15 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | OAP | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $0.20 | ↓ -100% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| United | CorePayer | $0.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $20.47 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $20.47 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $20.47 | ↓ -85% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $25.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Ambetter | Select | $31.67 | ↓ -77% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $33.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $34.12 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $42.31 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $42.58 | ↓ -69% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $61.42 | ↓ -55% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $68.25 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $75.07 | ↓ -45% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $81.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $95.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $102.37 | ↓ -25% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $116.02 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $125.57 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↑ +1365% |
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Sodium chloride 3 % ivpb at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $7.77 | $0.09 – $9.20 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $9.49 | $0.14 – $0.15 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $11.10 | $0.09 – $9.20 |
| 62-0123940 BMH Collierville | Collierville | $8.66 | $0.15 – $0.15 |
| 62-1138045 BMH Union City | Union City | $8.25 | $0.14 – $0.15 |
| HENDERSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER | HENDERSONVILLE | not published | $0.15 – $0.27 |
| HORIZON MEDICAL CENTER | DICKSON | not published | $0.15 – $0.27 |
| NORTHCREST MEDICAL CENTER | SPRINGFIELD | not published | $0.15 – $0.27 |