Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$88.20
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.
$140.00
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.
$7.77 with Wellpoint vs $126.00 with Galaxy Health Network — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $7.77 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $8.05 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $15.49 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $17.27 | ↓ -80% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $17.27 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $17.27 | ↓ -80% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $17.27 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $17.79 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $17.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $17.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $17.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $17.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | DSNP | $17.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $17.96 | ↓ -80% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $17.96 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $18.13 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $21.59 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $30.22 | ↓ -66% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $31.26 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $32.81 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | IFP | $35.38 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $35.54 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | HMO | $38.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | OAP | $38.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | POS | $38.63 | ↓ -56% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $63.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $84.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $91.00 | ↑ +3% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $98.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $105.00 | ↑ +19% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $105.00 | ↑ +19% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $112.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | BHO | $112.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $112.00 | ↑ +27% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $112.00 | ↑ +27% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $119.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $123.20 | ↑ +40% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $126.00 | ↑ +43% |
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Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $46.20 | $7.77 – $126.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $54.59 | $15.54 – $30.40 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $13.34 | $14.03 – $34.54 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $31.80 | $8.64 – $37.65 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $54.59 | $15.54 – $36.44 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $54.59 | $15.54 – $36.44 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $54.59 | $15.54 – $36.44 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $54.59 | $15.54 – $35.40 |