Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at HENDERSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER
355 NEW SHACKLE ISLAND ROAD, HENDERSONVILLE, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1538114434
$1,956.21
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.
$1,956.21
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.
$10.05 with Wellpoint vs $1,799.71 with Beech Street — 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 | $10.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $17.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMM | $17.77 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| HealthSpring | DualEligible | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| HealthSpring | MCRPOS | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| United | VACCN | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CorePayer | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $22.34 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $22.56 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $22.56 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $22.56 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCR | $22.79 | ↓ -99% |
| WellCare | MCR | $23.01 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCR | $23.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $23.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | Select | $23.23 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $23.46 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $23.46 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $23.46 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $23.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $23.46 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $23.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $23.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $24.13 | ↓ -99% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $24.57 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $25.69 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $30.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $32.17 | ↓ -98% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $32.84 | ↓ -98% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $32.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $39.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | OAP | $45.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | HIX | $67.02 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $69.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $69.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $69.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $69.88 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $74.56 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $80.70 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $126.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $360.14 | ↓ -82% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $371.68 | ↓ -81% |
| Apex Health | MCR | $371.68 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health (AllyAlign) | MCR | $371.68 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $489.05 | ↓ -75% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $492.96 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | PPO | $657.29 | ↓ -66% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $880.29 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NAP | $978.11 | ↓ -50% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $978.11 | ↓ -50% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $1,369.35 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $1,467.16 | ↓ -25% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $1,604.09 | ↓ -18% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $1,662.78 | ↓ -15% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $1,799.71 | ↓ -8% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $18.81 | $8.04 – $86.93 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $80.52 | $19.85 – $190.40 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $54.28 | $19.44 – $44.68 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $115.06 | $19.85 – $190.40 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $39.15 | $11.17 – $48.70 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $18.81 | $15.66 – $86.93 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $18.81 | $15.66 – $86.93 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $18.81 | $15.66 – $86.93 |