Blood Culture Test at CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga
2525 de Sales Avenue, Chattanooga, TN · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1255428736
$35.11
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.
$83.00
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.
$9.17 with United vs $58.10 with Aetna — 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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| United | Medicaid|TennCare | $9.17 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $10.32 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $10.32 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - ND | Medicare|All Plans | $10.73 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $10.84 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $10.94 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $11.04 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $11.35 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|PPO | $11.35 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.98 | ↓ -63% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $15.48 | ↓ -56% |
| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.43 | ↓ -50% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $19.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $22.79 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network S | $24.80 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $25.38 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - TN | Medicaid|BlueCare | $30.20 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network P | $31.28 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $58.10 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $58.10 | ↑ +65% |
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Blood Culture Test at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $100.97 | $3.72 – $39.50 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $24.57 | $9.17 – $58.10 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $101.00 | $7.24 – $39.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $101.00 | $7.24 – $39.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $101.00 | $7.24 – $39.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $100.97 | $9.29 – $39.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman | Centerville | not published | $9.29 – $39.50 |