Exchange drainage catheter at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$501.00
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.
$1,670.00
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.
$112.54 with Aetna vs $3,419.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial | $112.54 | ↓ -78% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $751.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $1,002.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $1,085.50 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $1,155.00 | ↑ +131% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $1,169.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,252.50 | ↑ +150% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $1,252.50 | ↑ +150% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $1,336.00 | ↑ +167% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $1,336.00 | ↑ +167% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,336.00 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna | BHO | $1,336.00 | ↑ +167% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $1,338.00 | ↑ +167% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $1,391.00 | ↑ +178% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $1,419.50 | ↑ +183% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $1,469.60 | ↑ +193% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $1,503.00 | ↑ +200% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $1,740.98 | ↑ +248% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $1,740.98 | ↑ +248% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $1,793.21 | ↑ +258% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,793.21 | ↑ +258% |
| Humana | DSNP | $1,793.21 | ↑ +258% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,793.21 | ↑ +258% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $1,793.21 | ↑ +258% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $1,793.21 | ↑ +258% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,810.62 | ↑ +261% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,810.62 | ↑ +261% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $1,828.03 | ↑ +265% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $1,894.00 | ↑ +278% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $2,009.00 | ↑ +301% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $2,227.00 | ↑ +345% |
| Cigna | IFP | $2,372.00 | ↑ +373% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $2,546.00 | ↑ +408% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $2,717.00 | ↑ +442% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $2,850.00 | ↑ +469% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $2,857.00 | ↑ +470% |
| Cigna | OAP | $3,419.00 | ↑ +582% |
| Cigna | HMO | $3,419.00 | ↑ +582% |
| Cigna | POS | $3,419.00 | ↑ +582% |
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Exchange drainage catheter at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $551.10 | $751.50 – $1,828.03 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $1,611.89 | $1,141.72 – $2,225.50 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $288.60 | $195.00 – $682.50 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $412.43 | $204.75 – $682.50 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $848.10 | $934.18 – $3,903.54 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $1,611.89 | $1,217.22 – $2,225.50 |
| Hancock County Hospital | SNEEDVILLE | $832.37 | $1,044.12 – $2,007.86 |
| Greeneville Community Hospital | GREENEVILLE | $848.10 | $1,013.71 – $3,903.54 |