Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$148.05
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.
$235.00
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.
$15.79 with Wellpoint vs $78.78 with Cigna — 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 |
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| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $15.79 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $22.45 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $31.48 | ↓ -79% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $31.50 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -76% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $35.09 | ↓ -76% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $35.09 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $35.09 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $35.09 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $36.14 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $36.14 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $36.14 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $36.14 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | DSNP | $36.14 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $36.14 | ↓ -76% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $36.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $36.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $36.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $42.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $45.50 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $48.74 | ↓ -67% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $49.00 | ↓ -67% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $52.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $52.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | BHO | $56.00 | ↓ -62% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $56.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $56.00 | ↓ -62% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $56.00 | ↓ -62% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $59.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $61.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $63.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $63.51 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $68.23 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | IFP | $72.16 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $72.47 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $74.08 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | HMO | $78.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | POS | $78.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | OAP | $78.78 | ↓ -47% |
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $77.55 | $15.79 – $63.51 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $1,093.32 | $12.63 – $135.44 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $87.03 | $31.18 – $117.60 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $25.30 | $30.53 – $70.18 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $124.37 | $31.18 – $117.60 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $61.50 | $17.55 – $76.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $1,093.32 | $24.61 – $135.44 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $1,093.32 | $24.61 – $135.44 |