Muscle-skin graft leg at CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson

2051 Hamill Road, Hixson, TN · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083778633

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$1,096.09

Cash price

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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.

$3,703.00

Gross charge

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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.

$167.00 with BCBS - TN vs $6,165.31 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
BCBS - TN Commercial|Network S $167.00 ↓ -85%
BCBS - TN Commercial|Network P $217.00 ↓ -80%
Amerigroup Medicaid|All Plans $512.00 ↓ -53%
Peach State Medicaid|All Plans $740.60 ↓ -32%
BCBS - TN Medicaid|BlueCare $1,133.90 ↑ +3%
Alliant Health Commercial|All Plans $1,922.00 ↑ +75%
Cigna Commercial|LocalPlus $1,993.00 ↑ +82%
Employers Health Network Commercial|All Plans $2,005.10 ↑ +83%
Cigna Commercial|Open Access $2,456.00 ↑ +124%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $2,519.00 ↑ +130%
Aetna Commercial|Gatekeeper $2,592.10 ↑ +136%
Aetna Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper $2,592.10 ↑ +136%
Health One Alliance Commercial|All Plans $2,694.00 ↑ +146%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $2,818.77 ↑ +157%
United Medicaid|TennCare $2,980.00 ↑ +172%
BCBS - ND Medicare|All Plans $3,410.60 ↑ +211%
Cigna Medicare|Healthspring $3,443.39 ↑ +214%
Humana Medicare|HMO $3,476.19 ↑ +217%
Amerigroup Medicare|All Plans $3,508.98 ↑ +220%
Humana Medicare|PPO $3,607.36 ↑ +229%
Humana Medicare|All Other Plans $3,607.36 ↑ +229%
United Commercial|Options $4,738.00 ↑ +332%
United Commercial|Non-Options $4,738.00 ↑ +332%
Centene Commercial|Ambetter Exchange $6,165.31 ↑ +462%

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Muscle-skin graft leg at other Tennessee hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga Chattanooga $1,566.37 $777.63 – $2,592.10
Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown Nashville not published $1,468.50 – $1,752.88
Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb Smithville not published $1,150.77 – $1,543.50
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands Sparta not published $1,150.77 – $1,543.50
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park McMinnville not published $1,150.77 – $1,543.50
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Murfreesboro not published $1,468.50 – $1,869.19
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman Centerville not published $1,468.50 – $1,543.50

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