Brachy source i-125 injection at CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga
2525 de Sales Avenue, Chattanooga, TN · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1255428736
$27.92
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.
$66.00
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.
$13.86 with Peach State vs $66.00 with BCBS - TN — 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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| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.86 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $23.10 | ↓ -17% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $25.08 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $25.08 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $26.40 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Medicaid|TennCare | $29.69 | ↑ +6% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $29.70 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - ND | Medicare|All Plans | $34.51 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $34.84 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $35.17 | ↑ +26% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $35.50 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Medicare|PPO | $36.50 | ↑ +31% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $36.50 | ↑ +31% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $39.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Alliant Health | Commercial|All Plans | $42.24 | ↑ +51% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $46.20 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $46.20 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $46.20 | ↑ +65% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $62.38 | ↑ +123% |
| BCBS - TN | Medicaid|BlueCare | $66.00 | ↑ +136% |
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Brachy source i-125 injection at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $19.54 | $13.20 – $66.00 |