Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$38.61
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.
$117.00
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.
$21.97 with United Healthcare vs $137.08 with Cigna — 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 | $21.97 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $27.68 | ↓ -28% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $52.65 | ↑ +36% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Humana | DSNP | $63.35 | ↑ +64% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $63.35 | ↑ +64% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $63.35 | ↑ +64% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $63.35 | ↑ +64% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $63.35 | ↑ +64% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $63.96 | ↑ +66% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $63.96 | ↑ +66% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $64.58 | ↑ +67% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $70.20 | ↑ +82% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $76.05 | ↑ +97% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $76.88 | ↑ +99% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $81.90 | ↑ +112% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $87.75 | ↑ +127% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $87.75 | ↑ +127% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $93.18 | ↑ +141% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $93.60 | ↑ +142% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $93.60 | ↑ +142% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $93.60 | ↑ +142% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $99.45 | ↑ +158% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $102.96 | ↑ +167% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $105.30 | ↑ +173% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $107.63 | ↑ +179% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $111.32 | ↑ +188% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $116.85 | ↑ +203% |
| Cigna | IFP | $125.56 | ↑ +225% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $126.11 | ↑ +227% |
| Cigna | POS | $137.08 | ↑ +255% |
| Cigna | OAP | $137.08 | ↑ +255% |
| Cigna | HMO | $137.08 | ↑ +255% |
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Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | $73.71 | $21.97 – $111.32 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $105.74 | $22.14 – $193.00 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $120.48 | $30.51 – $284.90 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $172.17 | $30.51 – $284.90 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $27.75 | $29.37 – $134.07 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $105.74 | $24.09 – $193.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $105.74 | $24.09 – $193.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $105.74 | $28.93 – $193.00 |