Artery x-rays spine at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$2,558.40
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.
$8,528.00
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.
$116.00 with BCBS TN vs $9,422.19 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 | Commercial Network S | $116.00 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $131.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $192.90 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | IFP | $276.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $277.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | POS | $301.68 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | HMO | $301.68 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | OAP | $301.68 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $445.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $751.30 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $1,829.70 | ↓ -28% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $4,285.68 | ↑ +68% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $5,048.52 | ↑ +97% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $5,048.52 | ↑ +97% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $5,199.98 | ↑ +103% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $5,199.98 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $5,199.98 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5,199.98 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | DSNP | $5,199.98 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $5,199.98 | ↑ +103% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5,250.46 | ↑ +105% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $5,250.46 | ↑ +105% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $5,300.95 | ↑ +107% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $9,422.19 | ↑ +268% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $9,422.19 | ↑ +268% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $9,422.19 | ↑ +268% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | not published by hospital | — |
| EHN | Network Lease | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | BHO | not published by hospital | — |
| Direct Care America | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | not published by hospital | — |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Beech Street | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| National Provider Network | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | not published by hospital | — |
| Initial Group | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Artery x-rays spine at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $2,814.24 | $116.00 – $5,300.95 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $994.49 | $148.27 – $7,353.90 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $5,524.55 | $221.14 – $13,064.80 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $7,894.88 | $221.14 – $13,064.80 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $1,357.80 | $254.18 – $11,319.56 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $994.49 | $148.27 – $7,353.90 |
| Greeneville Community Hospital | GREENEVILLE | $1,357.80 | $224.00 – $11,319.56 |
| Bristol Regional Medical Center | BRISTOL | $1,357.80 | $224.00 – $11,507.70 |