Transcath closure of vsd at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$6,103.68
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.
$18,496.00
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.
$3,884.16 with BCBS TN vs $19,113.00 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 | $3,884.16 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5,380.46 | ↓ -12% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $8,323.20 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | IFP | $8,709.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $9,766.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $9,965.00 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $11,023.00 | ↑ +81% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $11,097.60 | ↑ +82% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $11,274.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Cigna | POS | $11,489.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Cigna | HMO | $11,489.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Cigna | OAP | $11,489.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $11,837.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $12,022.40 | ↑ +97% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $12,341.00 | ↑ +102% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $12,947.20 | ↑ +112% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $13,316.00 | ↑ +118% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $13,872.00 | ↑ +127% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $13,872.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $14,796.80 | ↑ +142% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $14,796.80 | ↑ +142% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $14,796.80 | ↑ +142% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $15,660.00 | ↑ +157% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $15,721.60 | ↑ +158% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $16,276.48 | ↑ +167% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $16,631.83 | ↑ +172% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $16,631.83 | ↑ +172% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $16,646.40 | ↑ +173% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $17,130.78 | ↑ +181% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $17,130.78 | ↑ +181% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $17,130.78 | ↑ +181% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $17,130.78 | ↑ +181% |
| Humana | DSNP | $17,130.78 | ↑ +181% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $17,297.10 | ↑ +183% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $17,297.10 | ↑ +183% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $17,463.42 | ↑ +186% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $19,113.00 | ↑ +213% |
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Transcath closure of vsd at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | $5,548.80 | $1,414.88 – $17,463.42 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $12,223.80 | $1,068.85 – $24,447.60 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | not published | $1,068.85 – $16,047.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | not published | $1,068.85 – $16,047.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | not published | $1,596.97 – $16,047.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | not published | $1,068.85 – $16,047.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman | Centerville | not published | $14,749.00 – $16,047.00 |
| Roane County Medical Center | Harriman | not published | $8,709.00 – $17,463.42 |