Biopsy muscle percutaneous needle at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$318.00
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.
$1,060.00
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.
$84.05 with Aetna vs $2,717.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial | $84.05 | ↓ -74% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $477.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $636.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $689.00 | ↑ +117% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $742.00 | ↑ +133% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $795.00 | ↑ +150% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $795.00 | ↑ +150% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $848.00 | ↑ +167% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $848.00 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna | BHO | $848.00 | ↑ +167% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $848.00 | ↑ +167% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $901.00 | ↑ +183% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $932.80 | ↑ +193% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $954.00 | ↑ +200% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $1,155.00 | ↑ +263% |
| Cigna | IFP | $1,250.00 | ↑ +293% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $1,308.00 | ↑ +311% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $1,338.00 | ↑ +321% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $1,391.00 | ↑ +337% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $1,498.45 | ↑ +371% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $1,498.45 | ↑ +371% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $1,532.00 | ↑ +382% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,543.40 | ↑ +385% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,543.40 | ↑ +385% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $1,543.40 | ↑ +385% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $1,543.40 | ↑ +385% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $1,543.40 | ↑ +385% |
| Humana | DSNP | $1,543.40 | ↑ +385% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,558.39 | ↑ +390% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,558.39 | ↑ +390% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $1,573.37 | ↑ +395% |
| Cigna | OAP | $1,802.00 | ↑ +467% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,802.00 | ↑ +467% |
| Cigna | POS | $1,802.00 | ↑ +467% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $1,894.00 | ↑ +496% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $2,046.00 | ↑ +543% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $2,227.00 | ↑ +600% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $2,290.00 | ↑ +620% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $2,717.00 | ↑ +754% |
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Biopsy muscle percutaneous needle at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $349.80 | $477.00 – $1,573.37 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $1,480.32 | $733.50 – $1,141.72 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $773.75 | $522.80 – $1,829.80 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $1,105.73 | $548.94 – $1,829.80 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $418.80 | $1,280.49 – $3,359.76 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $1,480.32 | $526.32 – $1,004.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $1,480.32 | $526.32 – $1,004.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $1,480.32 | $526.32 – $1,004.50 |