Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER
100 SUMMIT BLVD, MT JULIET, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1982650024
$101.30
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.
$101.30
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.
$0.30 with Cigna vs $89.14 with Beech Street — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $0.30 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | OAP | $0.34 | ↓ -100% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $0.37 | ↓ -100% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $0.37 | ↓ -100% |
| United | CorePayer | $0.37 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $15.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $15.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $15.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Kentucky Labor Cabinet | WORKERSCOMP | $18.65 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $23.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Ambetter | Select | $23.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | TRICARE | $25.32 | ↓ -75% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $28.26 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | PPO | $33.02 | ↓ -67% |
| Centurion | PRISON | $41.74 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $45.59 | ↓ -55% |
| BGFH SingleSource | DIRECTNETWORK | $50.65 | ↓ -50% |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $50.65 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $65.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana BH | COMM | $65.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $70.91 | ↓ -30% |
| Odom's TN Pride Sausage | WORKERSCOMP | $75.97 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna Evernorth Behavioral Health | COMM | $81.04 | ↓ -20% |
| BGFH SingleSource | LEASEDNETWORK | $86.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Prime Health | COMMPPO | $89.14 | ↓ -12% |
| Beech Street | COMM | $89.14 | ↓ -12% |
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Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $1.68 | $0.26 – $0.51 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $33.44 | $0.32 – $15.50 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $1.33 | $0.24 – $0.31 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $47.78 | $0.32 – $15.50 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $0.72 | $0.51 – $2.83 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $1.68 | $0.26 – $0.51 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $1.68 | $0.26 – $0.51 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $1.68 | $0.26 – $0.51 |