Application of paste boot 29580 at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$164.34
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.
$498.00
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.
$112.05 with EHN vs $2,811.90 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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| EHN | Network Lease | $112.05 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | IFP | $144.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $145.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $147.43 | ↓ -10% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $147.43 | ↓ -10% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $149.40 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $151.85 | ↓ -8% |
| Humana | DSNP | $151.85 | ↓ -8% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $151.85 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $151.85 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $151.85 | ↓ -8% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $153.33 | ↓ -7% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $153.33 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $154.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $161.85 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | OAP | $169.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | POS | $169.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | HMO | $169.00 | ↑ +3% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $174.30 | ↑ +6% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $186.75 | ↑ +14% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $186.75 | ↑ +14% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $199.20 | ↑ +21% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $199.20 | ↑ +21% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $199.20 | ↑ +21% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $211.65 | ↑ +29% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $219.12 | ↑ +33% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $224.10 | ↑ +36% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $293.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $307.90 | ↑ +87% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $433.00 | ↑ +163% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $509.00 | ↑ +210% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $624.00 | ↑ +280% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $1,155.00 | ↑ +603% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $1,685.00 | ↑ +925% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $1,887.00 | ↑ +1048% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $2,009.00 | ↑ +1122% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,811.90 | ↑ +1611% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | not published | $39.12 – $154.80 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $174.64 | $66.96 – $375.20 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $61.64 | $125.35 – $288.16 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $249.57 | $66.96 – $375.20 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $60.30 | $42.74 – $330.57 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $502.43 | $44.99 – $2,225.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $502.43 | $44.99 – $2,225.50 |
| Hancock County Hospital | SNEEDVILLE | $59.34 | $42.74 – $285.93 |