Microdissection manual at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown
2000 Church St, Nashville, TN · Ascension · · NPI 1629025648
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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.
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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.
$113.90 with BCBS BLUE CARE vs $308.33 with CIGNA HMO — 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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| BCBS BLUE CARE | 1015_BCBS BLUE CARE TENNCARE SELECT 20221001 | $113.90 | — |
| UHC COMPASS/EXCHANGE | 1309_UHC COMPASS EXCHANGE (MIDTOWN) 20250715 | $117.09 | — |
| UHC | 1310_UHC (MIDTOWN) 20250715 | $141.29 | — |
| BCBS SELECT | 1312_BHTN BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD SELECT 20250701 | $142.13 | — |
| BCBS NETWORK L | 1307_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD NETWORK L 20250401 | $142.13 | — |
| BCBS NETWORK E | 1306_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD NETWORK E 20250401 | $142.14 | — |
| BCBS PREFERRED | 1311_BHTN BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD PREFERRED 20250701 | $166.78 | — |
| BCBS MISSIONPOINT | 1012_BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD MISSIONPOINT 20221001 | $180.04 | — |
| AETNA WHOLE HEALTH | 1204_BHTN AETNA WHOLE HEALTH 20241001 | $226.85 | — |
| AETNA VHAN | 1203_BHTN AETNA VHAN 20241001 | $226.85 | — |
| AETNA | 1308_BHTN AETNA 20250701 | $226.86 | — |
| CIGNA SUREFIT | 1185_BHTN CIGNA SUREFIT 20241001 V1 | $233.90 | — |
| CIGNA LOCALPLUS | 1315_BHTN CIGNA LOCALPLUS 20250601 | $280.86 | — |
| HUMANA +51 CPOS | 1186_BHTN HUMANA +51 CPOS 20241001 | $289.42 | — |
| CIGNA HMO | 1314_BHTN CIGNA HMO 20250601 | $308.33 | — |
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Microdissection manual at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | not published | $52.31 – $308.33 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | not published | $52.31 – $308.33 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | not published | $52.31 – $308.33 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | not published | $95.11 – $308.33 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman | Centerville | not published | $95.11 – $308.33 |