ER Visit (level 2) at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$175.80
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.
$586.00
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.
$45.83 with Aetna vs $1,449.00 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 | $45.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $139.31 | ↓ -21% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $139.31 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $143.49 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $143.49 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $143.49 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $143.49 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $143.49 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | DSNP | $143.49 | ↓ -18% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $144.88 | ↓ -18% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $144.88 | ↓ -18% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $146.28 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $154.00 | ↓ -12% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $263.70 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $315.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $325.50 | ↑ +85% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $351.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $380.90 | ↑ +117% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $410.20 | ↑ +133% |
| Cigna | IFP | $411.00 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $415.00 | ↑ +136% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $439.50 | ↑ +150% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $439.50 | ↑ +150% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $452.00 | ↑ +157% |
| Cigna | BHO | $468.80 | ↑ +167% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $468.80 | ↑ +167% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $468.80 | ↑ +167% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $468.80 | ↑ +167% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $498.10 | ↑ +183% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $515.68 | ↑ +193% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $527.40 | ↑ +200% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $847.00 | ↑ +382% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $919.00 | ↑ +423% |
| Cigna | POS | $996.00 | ↑ +467% |
| Cigna | OAP | $996.00 | ↑ +467% |
| Cigna | HMO | $996.00 | ↑ +467% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $1,011.00 | ↑ +475% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $1,189.00 | ↑ +576% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $1,449.00 | ↑ +724% |
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ER Visit (level 2) at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $193.38 | $139.31 – $527.40 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $573.00 | $33.83 – $1,686.00 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $355.20 | $50.35 – $1,222.00 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $150.65 | $33.01 – $289.20 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $507.60 | $50.35 – $1,222.00 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $94.35 | $143.28 – $312.35 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $573.00 | $33.83 – $1,686.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $573.00 | $37.71 – $1,686.00 |