Culture bact stool aero addl path ea at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$15.12
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.
$24.00
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.
$4.25 with Wellpoint vs $21.60 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 | $4.25 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $6.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $8.46 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $9.44 | ↓ -38% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $9.44 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $9.44 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $9.44 | ↓ -38% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $9.44 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.72 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $9.72 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | DSNP | $9.72 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $9.72 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $9.72 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $9.72 | ↓ -36% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $9.82 | ↓ -35% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $9.82 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $9.91 | ↓ -34% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $10.80 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $13.11 | ↓ -13% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $14.40 | ↓ -5% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $15.60 | ↑ +3% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $16.80 | ↑ +11% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $17.09 | ↑ +13% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $18.00 | ↑ +19% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $18.00 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $18.36 | ↑ +21% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $19.20 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | BHO | $19.20 | ↑ +27% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $19.20 | ↑ +27% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $19.20 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | IFP | $19.42 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $19.50 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $19.93 | ↑ +32% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $20.40 | ↑ +35% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $21.12 | ↑ +40% |
| Cigna | HMO | $21.20 | ↑ +40% |
| Cigna | OAP | $21.20 | ↑ +40% |
| Cigna | POS | $21.20 | ↑ +40% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $21.60 | ↑ +43% |
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Culture bact stool aero addl path ea at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $7.92 | $4.25 – $21.60 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $105.90 | $2.65 – $36.12 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $33.45 | $2.97 – $79.10 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $37.95 | $2.65 – $18.88 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $47.80 | $2.97 – $79.10 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $16.50 | $3.07 – $20.58 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $105.90 | $2.65 – $36.12 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $105.90 | $2.65 – $36.12 |