Doppler echo complete at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$69.30
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.
$231.00
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.
$38.58 with BCBS TN vs $645.00 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 |
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| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $38.58 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $44.37 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $48.23 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $57.73 | ↓ -17% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $103.95 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $117.34 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna | IFP | $117.34 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna | OAP | $138.13 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | HMO | $138.13 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | POS | $138.13 | ↑ +99% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $138.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $138.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $150.15 | ↑ +117% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $161.70 | ↑ +133% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $173.25 | ↑ +150% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $173.25 | ↑ +150% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $184.80 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna | BHO | $184.80 | ↑ +167% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $184.80 | ↑ +167% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $184.80 | ↑ +167% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $196.35 | ↑ +183% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $203.28 | ↑ +193% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $207.90 | ↑ +200% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $450.00 | ↑ +549% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $529.00 | ↑ +663% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $645.00 | ↑ +831% |
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Doppler echo complete at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $76.23 | $38.58 – $450.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $351.80 | $52.30 – $74.43 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $312.58 | $77.84 – $989.00 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $341.55 | $52.30 – $53.68 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $446.69 | $77.84 – $989.00 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $224.25 | $60.67 – $619.40 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $689.00 | $52.30 – $74.43 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $689.00 | $52.30 – $78.45 |