Blood typing patient serum at CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson
2051 Hamill Road, Hixson, TN · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083778633
$14.51
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.
$49.00
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.
$11.27 with BCBS - TN vs $100.03 with Centene — 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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| BCBS - TN | Medicaid|BlueCare | $11.27 | ↓ -22% |
| Peach State | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.95 | ↓ -18% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.95 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $16.34 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $16.34 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network S | $22.83 | ↑ +57% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $24.51 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS - TN | Commercial|Network P | $28.79 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $32.05 | ↑ +121% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $34.30 | ↑ +136% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $34.30 | ↑ +136% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Open Access | $35.69 | ↑ +146% |
| United | Medicaid|TennCare | $49.66 | ↑ +242% |
| BCBS - ND | Medicare|All Plans | $55.34 | ↑ +281% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $55.87 | ↑ +285% |
| Humana | Medicare|HMO | $56.40 | ↑ +289% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $56.93 | ↑ +292% |
| Humana | Medicare|PPO | $58.53 | ↑ +303% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $58.53 | ↑ +303% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $100.03 | ↑ +589% |
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Blood typing patient serum at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $20.73 | $10.29 – $34.30 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $157.07 | $7.40 – $78.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $157.07 | $7.40 – $78.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $157.07 | $7.40 – $78.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $157.07 | $7.57 – $79.65 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | not published | $7.57 – $79.65 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman | Centerville | not published | $14.71 – $50.81 |