Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at Fort Loudoun Medical Center
550 Fort Loudoun Medical Center Dr, Lenoir City, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1609860659
$586.74
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.
$1,778.00
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.
$800.10 with EHN vs $2,945.00 with BCBS TN — 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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| EHN | Network Lease | $800.10 | ↑ +36% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $822.88 | ↑ +40% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $822.88 | ↑ +40% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $847.57 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $847.57 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $847.57 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | DSNP | $847.57 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $847.57 | ↑ +44% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $855.80 | ↑ +46% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $855.80 | ↑ +46% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $864.02 | ↑ +47% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $1,066.80 | ↑ +82% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $1,155.70 | ↑ +97% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $1,244.60 | ↑ +112% |
| Cigna | IFP | $1,250.00 | ↑ +113% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $1,308.00 | ↑ +123% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $1,333.50 | ↑ +127% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $1,339.00 | ↑ +128% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $1,391.00 | ↑ +137% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $1,422.40 | ↑ +142% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $1,422.40 | ↑ +142% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,422.40 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,511.30 | ↑ +158% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $1,511.30 | ↑ +158% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $1,532.00 | ↑ +161% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $1,564.64 | ↑ +167% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $1,575.00 | ↑ +168% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $1,600.20 | ↑ +173% |
| Cigna | HMO | $1,802.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Cigna | POS | $1,802.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Cigna | OAP | $1,802.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,808.27 | ↑ +208% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $1,894.00 | ↑ +223% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $2,227.00 | ↑ +280% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $2,717.00 | ↑ +363% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $2,945.00 | ↑ +402% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $2,945.00 | ↑ +402% |
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Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $1,668.08 | $733.50 – $1,534.53 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $1,461.65 | $987.60 – $3,456.60 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $758.08 | $744.81 – $1,712.20 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $2,088.78 | $1,036.98 – $3,456.60 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $324.60 | $706.24 – $1,845.04 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $1,668.08 | $244.68 – $1,238.94 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $1,668.08 | $244.68 – $1,238.94 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $1,668.08 | $244.68 – $1,238.94 |