Lung function test (mbc/mvv) at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$39.90
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.
$133.00
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.
$18.70 with Aetna vs $385.00 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 | $18.70 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $24.00 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $27.60 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $30.00 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $50.01 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $51.29 | ↑ +29% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $53.52 | ↑ +34% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $53.52 | ↑ +34% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $55.13 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $55.13 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $55.13 | ↑ +38% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $55.13 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | DSNP | $55.13 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $55.13 | ↑ +38% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $55.66 | ↑ +39% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $55.66 | ↑ +39% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $56.20 | ↑ +41% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $59.85 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $67.56 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna | IFP | $67.56 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna | POS | $79.53 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | OAP | $79.53 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | HMO | $79.53 | ↑ +99% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $79.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $79.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $86.45 | ↑ +117% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $93.10 | ↑ +133% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $99.75 | ↑ +150% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $99.75 | ↑ +150% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $106.40 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna | BHO | $106.40 | ↑ +167% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $106.40 | ↑ +167% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $106.40 | ↑ +167% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $113.05 | ↑ +183% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $117.04 | ↑ +193% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $119.70 | ↑ +200% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $268.00 | ↑ +572% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $314.00 | ↑ +687% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $385.00 | ↑ +865% |
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Lung function test (mbc/mvv) at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $43.89 | $24.00 – $119.70 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $28.95 | $8.75 – $120.01 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $147.30 | $7.54 – $78.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $147.30 | $7.54 – $78.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | $147.30 | $7.54 – $79.65 |
| Hancock County Hospital | SNEEDVILLE | $28.52 | $8.75 – $83.90 |
| Greeneville Community Hospital | GREENEVILLE | $28.95 | $8.75 – $120.01 |
| Bristol Regional Medical Center | BRISTOL | $28.95 | $8.75 – $134.31 |