Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$2,364.12
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.
$7,164.00
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.
$1,155.00 with BCBS TN vs $5,705.00 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $1,155.00 | ↓ -51% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $1,611.90 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,808.27 | ↓ -24% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $2,149.20 | ↓ -9% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $2,328.30 | ↓ -2% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $2,507.40 | ↑ +6% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $2,686.50 | ↑ +14% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $2,686.50 | ↑ +14% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $2,865.60 | ↑ +21% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $2,865.60 | ↑ +21% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $2,865.60 | ↑ +21% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $2,875.00 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $2,889.00 | ↑ +22% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $2,938.00 | ↑ +24% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $3,044.70 | ↑ +29% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $3,152.16 | ↑ +33% |
| Cigna | IFP | $3,186.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $3,223.80 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $3,234.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $3,248.41 | ↑ +37% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $3,248.41 | ↑ +37% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $3,332.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | DSNP | $3,345.86 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $3,345.86 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,345.86 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $3,345.86 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,345.86 | ↑ +42% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,378.35 | ↑ +43% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $3,378.35 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $3,410.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $3,907.00 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $3,976.00 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | HMO | $4,595.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | OAP | $4,595.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | POS | $4,595.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $4,675.00 | ↑ +98% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $5,705.00 | ↑ +141% |
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Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | $2,149.20 | $329.87 – $3,410.83 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $1,792.47 | $1,141.72 – $3,142.00 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $3,402.82 | $2,299.20 – $8,047.20 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $4,862.81 | $2,414.16 – $8,047.20 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $1,377.90 | $1,281.58 – $7,283.43 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $1,792.47 | $1,217.22 – $3,160.00 |
| Greeneville Community Hospital | GREENEVILLE | $1,377.90 | $1,390.68 – $7,283.43 |
| Bristol Regional Medical Center | BRISTOL | $1,377.90 | $1,302.89 – $8,151.73 |