Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$10.08
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.
$16.00
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.
$2.14 with Wellpoint vs $14.40 with Galaxy Health Network — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $2.14 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $2.94 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $4.27 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -53% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $4.76 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $4.76 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $4.76 | ↓ -53% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $4.76 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $4.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $4.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | DSNP | $4.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $4.90 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $4.90 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $4.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $4.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $4.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $5.00 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $6.39 | ↓ -37% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $7.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $8.62 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $8.94 | ↓ -11% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $9.60 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $9.71 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | IFP | $9.71 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $9.75 | ↓ -3% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $10.40 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | HMO | $10.60 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | POS | $10.60 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | OAP | $10.60 | ↑ +5% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $11.20 | ↑ +11% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $12.00 | ↑ +19% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $12.00 | ↑ +19% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $12.80 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | BHO | $12.80 | ↑ +27% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $12.80 | ↑ +27% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $12.80 | ↑ +27% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $13.60 | ↑ +35% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $14.08 | ↑ +40% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $14.40 | ↑ +43% |
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Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | $15.18 | $2.14 – $14.40 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $64.82 | $1.71 – $18.06 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $13.03 | $4.09 – $30.80 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $51.06 | $4.14 – $9.52 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $18.62 | $4.09 – $30.80 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $8.10 | $2.31 – $10.38 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $42.81 | $3.23 – $18.06 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $42.81 | $3.23 – $18.06 |