Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$202.95
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.
$615.00
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.
$112.96 with United Healthcare vs $594.89 with Ambetter — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $112.96 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $177.36 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $203.96 | ↑ +0% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $216.48 | ↑ +7% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $216.48 | ↑ +7% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $217.30 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $221.70 | ↑ +9% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $222.97 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $222.97 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $222.97 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | DSNP | $222.97 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $222.97 | ↑ +10% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $225.14 | ↑ +11% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $225.14 | ↑ +11% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $227.30 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $272.70 | ↑ +34% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $276.75 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | IFP | $317.97 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $319.36 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | POS | $347.13 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | OAP | $347.13 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | HMO | $347.13 | ↑ +71% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $360.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $369.00 | ↑ +82% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $399.75 | ↑ +97% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $424.00 | ↑ +109% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $430.50 | ↑ +112% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $461.25 | ↑ +127% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $461.25 | ↑ +127% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $492.00 | ↑ +142% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $492.00 | ↑ +142% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $492.00 | ↑ +142% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $516.00 | ↑ +154% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $522.75 | ↑ +158% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $541.20 | ↑ +167% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $553.50 | ↑ +173% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $594.89 | ↑ +193% |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | $184.50 | $112.96 – $594.89 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $461.81 | $108.35 – $436.96 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $760.72 | $132.73 – $1,799.00 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $471.27 | $108.35 – $441.44 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $1,087.11 | $132.73 – $1,799.00 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $229.50 | $114.91 – $485.38 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $571.19 | $76.07 – $436.96 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $571.19 | $76.07 – $436.96 |