Prednisone 1 mg tablet at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$1.23
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.
$3.72
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.
$0.01 with United Healthcare vs $0.14 with Initial Group — 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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| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | OAP | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | POS | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | IFP | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | HMO | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $0.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $0.06 | ↓ -95% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $0.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $0.08 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $0.09 | ↓ -93% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $0.09 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $0.09 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $0.10 | ↓ -92% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $0.11 | ↓ -91% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $0.12 | ↓ -90% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $0.12 | ↓ -90% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $0.12 | ↓ -90% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $0.12 | ↓ -90% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $0.12 | ↓ -90% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $0.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $0.14 | ↓ -89% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $0.14 | ↓ -89% |
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Prednisone 1 mg tablet at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | $1.12 | $0.01 – $0.14 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $0.81 | $0.01 – $0.02 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $15.00 | $0.01 – $0.18 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $21.43 | $0.01 – $0.18 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $0.59 | $0.01 – $0.02 |
| Hancock County Hospital | SNEEDVILLE | $0.30 | $0.02 – $0.02 |
| Franklin Woods Community Hospital | JOHNSON CITY | $13.45 | $0.02 – $0.02 |
| Johnson County Community Hospital | MOUNTAIN CITY | $0.30 | $0.02 – $0.02 |