Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$4.95
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.
$15.00
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$1.50 with United Healthcare vs $13.93 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 | $1.50 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $3.00 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $3.00 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $3.00 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $3.75 | ↓ -24% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $4.20 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $5.25 | ↑ +6% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $5.43 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $5.70 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $6.00 | ↑ +21% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $6.75 | ↑ +36% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $9.00 | ↑ +82% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $9.34 | ↑ +89% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $9.34 | ↑ +89% |
| Humana | DSNP | $9.62 | ↑ +94% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $9.62 | ↑ +94% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $9.62 | ↑ +94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.62 | ↑ +94% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $9.62 | ↑ +94% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $9.71 | ↑ +96% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $9.71 | ↑ +96% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $9.75 | ↑ +97% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $9.81 | ↑ +98% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $10.50 | ↑ +112% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $11.25 | ↑ +127% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $11.25 | ↑ +127% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $12.00 | ↑ +142% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $12.00 | ↑ +142% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $12.00 | ↑ +142% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $12.75 | ↑ +158% |
| Cigna | IFP | $12.76 | ↑ +158% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $12.81 | ↑ +159% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $13.20 | ↑ +167% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $13.50 | ↑ +173% |
| Cigna | HMO | $13.93 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | OAP | $13.93 | ↑ +181% |
| Cigna | POS | $13.93 | ↑ +181% |
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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | $9.45 | $1.50 – $13.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $11.99 | $1.08 – $12.73 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $17.76 | $2.10 – $42.00 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $8.74 | $3.69 – $18.18 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $25.38 | $2.10 – $42.00 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $6.90 | $2.70 – $20.36 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $11.99 | $1.50 – $12.73 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $11.99 | $1.50 – $12.73 |