Injection(s) diagnostic/therapeutic agent facet lumbar/sacral 2nd level w/image guidance at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$310.50
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.
$1,035.00
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.
$74.38 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 |
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| Aetna | Commercial | $74.38 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $131.00 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $155.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $307.90 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $317.00 | ↑ +2% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $433.00 | ↑ +39% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $465.75 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $509.00 | ↑ +64% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $621.00 | ↑ +100% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $624.00 | ↑ +101% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $672.75 | ↑ +117% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $724.50 | ↑ +133% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $776.25 | ↑ +150% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $776.25 | ↑ +150% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $828.00 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna | BHO | $828.00 | ↑ +167% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $828.00 | ↑ +167% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $828.00 | ↑ +167% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $879.75 | ↑ +183% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $910.80 | ↑ +193% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $931.50 | ↑ +200% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $1,155.00 | ↑ +272% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $2,009.00 | ↑ +547% |
| Cigna | IFP | $2,372.00 | ↑ +664% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $2,857.00 | ↑ +820% |
| Cigna | OAP | $3,419.00 | ↑ +1001% |
| Cigna | POS | $3,419.00 | ↑ +1001% |
| Cigna | HMO | $3,419.00 | ↑ +1001% |
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Injection(s) diagnostic/therapeutic agent facet lumbar/sacral 2nd level w/image guidance at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $683.10 | $465.75 – $931.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $758.24 | $1,141.72 – $2,225.50 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $652.09 | $427.80 – $1,497.30 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $299.00 | $49.86 – $98.00 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $931.87 | $449.19 – $1,497.30 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $129.90 | $79.67 – $1,006.83 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $758.24 | $1,217.22 – $2,225.50 |
| Greeneville Community Hospital | GREENEVILLE | $129.90 | $79.67 – $1,050.52 |