Removal of shunt at Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1396739165
$1,451.70
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.
$4,839.00
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.
$709.21 with Aetna vs $5,705.00 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 | $709.21 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $1,155.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $2,009.00 | ↑ +38% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $2,177.55 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | IFP | $2,372.00 | ↑ +63% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $2,533.00 | ↑ +74% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $2,857.00 | ↑ +97% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $2,864.70 | ↑ +97% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $2,864.70 | ↑ +97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $2,875.00 | ↑ +98% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $2,889.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $2,903.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $2,950.64 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,950.64 | ↑ +103% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $2,950.64 | ↑ +103% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $2,950.64 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | DSNP | $2,950.64 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $2,950.64 | ↑ +103% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $2,979.29 | ↑ +105% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,979.29 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| American Health Plan | ISNP | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| NHC Advantage | ISNP | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $3,007.94 | ↑ +107% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $3,145.35 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $3,234.00 | ↑ +123% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $3,387.30 | ↑ +133% |
| Cigna | HMO | $3,419.00 | ↑ +136% |
| Cigna | POS | $3,419.00 | ↑ +136% |
| Cigna | OAP | $3,419.00 | ↑ +136% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $3,629.25 | ↑ +150% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $3,629.25 | ↑ +150% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $3,871.20 | ↑ +167% |
| Cigna | BHO | $3,871.20 | ↑ +167% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $3,871.20 | ↑ +167% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $3,871.20 | ↑ +167% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $3,976.00 | ↑ +174% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $4,113.15 | ↑ +183% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $4,258.32 | ↑ +193% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $4,355.10 | ↑ +200% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $4,675.00 | ↑ +222% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $5,705.00 | ↑ +293% |
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Removal of shunt at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | Knoxville | not published | $2,864.70 – $3,007.94 |
| 62-0123940 BMH Collierville | Collierville | $847.98 | $2,738.06 – $5,764.34 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | not published | $1,141.72 – $2,225.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | not published | $788.03 – $2,225.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | not published | $788.03 – $2,225.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | not published | $788.03 – $2,225.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | not published | $1,217.22 – $2,225.50 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman | Centerville | not published | $2,118.00 – $2,225.50 |