Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY
313 NORTH MAIN STREET, Ashland City, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1265487193
$35.00
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$35.00
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.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$6.44 with Kentucky Labor Cabinet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $6.44 | ↓ -82% |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $6.65 | ↓ -81% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $6.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Apex Health | MCR | $6.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | MGMCD | $8.09 | ↓ -77% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $8.54 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $8.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $10.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | PPO | $10.92 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $14.30 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | COMM | $14.30 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $15.75 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NAP | $17.50 | ↓ -50% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $17.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $17.98 | ↓ -49% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $17.98 | ↓ -49% |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $17.98 | ↓ -49% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $17.98 | ↓ -49% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $17.98 | ↓ -49% |
| United | CorePayer | $17.98 | ↓ -49% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $17.98 | ↓ -49% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $18.52 | ↓ -47% |
| WellCare | MCR | $18.52 | ↓ -47% |
| Ambetter | Select | $18.70 | ↓ -47% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| United | VACCN | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMOTMN | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMONonTMN | $18.88 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $19.07 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $19.07 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $19.07 | ↓ -46% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $19.25 | ↓ -45% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $19.42 | ↓ -45% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $19.78 | ↓ -43% |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $20.01 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $20.39 | ↓ -42% |
| Southern Health Partners | Prison | $21.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $21.71 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $22.02 | ↓ -37% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $24.50 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $24.52 | ↓ -30% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $25.89 | ↓ -26% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $26.25 | ↓ -25% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $26.43 | ↓ -24% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $26.43 | ↓ -24% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $29.75 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $32.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $32.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | OAP | $36.68 | ↑ +5% |
| Oscar | HIX | $53.94 | ↑ +54% |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $58.93 | ↑ +68% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $71.92 | ↑ +105% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $71.92 | ↑ +105% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $71.92 | ↑ +105% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $71.92 | ↑ +105% |
| BCBS | MCR | $2,000.00 | ↑ +5614% |
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Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $60.92 | $6.47 – $69.98 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $38.78 | $15.97 – $91.70 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $22.08 | $15.64 – $35.96 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $55.42 | $15.97 – $91.70 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $31.50 | $8.99 – $39.20 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $60.92 | $12.60 – $69.98 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $60.92 | $12.60 – $69.98 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $60.92 | $12.60 – $69.98 |