Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$444.90
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.
$444.90
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.
$2.16 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 | $2.16 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $3.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMM | $3.83 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CorePayer | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $4.81 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCR | $4.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $4.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | Select | $5.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMOTMN | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMONonTMN | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| United | VACCN | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $5.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $5.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $5.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $5.10 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $5.20 | ↓ -99% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $5.29 | ↓ -99% |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $5.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $5.81 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $6.56 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $6.93 | ↓ -98% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $7.07 | ↓ -98% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $7.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $8.66 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $9.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | OAP | $9.83 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $10.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | HIX | $14.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $19.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $19.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $19.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $19.24 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $26.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $81.91 | ↓ -82% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $84.53 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $84.53 | ↓ -81% |
| Apex Health | MCR | $84.53 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $108.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $111.22 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $137.92 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $138.81 | ↓ -69% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $200.21 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NAP | $222.45 | ↓ -50% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $222.45 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $244.69 | ↓ -45% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $266.94 | ↓ -40% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $311.43 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $333.68 | ↓ -25% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $378.17 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $409.31 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↑ +350% |
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Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $64.82 | $1.73 – $19.17 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $8.29 | $4.28 – $19.60 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $51.06 | $4.18 – $9.62 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $11.85 | $4.28 – $19.60 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $8.55 | $2.41 – $10.49 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $26.93 | $3.38 – $19.17 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $26.93 | $3.38 – $19.17 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $64.82 | $3.38 – $19.17 |