Culture body fluid at LeConte Medical Center
742 Middle Creek Rd, Sevierville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1528052578
$25.23
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.
$87.00
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.
$3.88 with Wellpoint vs $78.30 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 | $3.88 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $5.51 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $8.62 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $8.62 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -66% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $9.23 | ↓ -63% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $9.23 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | DSNP | $9.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $9.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $9.51 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $9.51 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $9.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $9.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $9.69 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $11.96 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $13.05 | ↓ -48% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $15.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | IFP | $17.34 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $17.41 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $18.18 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $18.18 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | POS | $18.93 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | OAP | $18.93 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | HMO | $18.93 | ↓ -25% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $39.15 | ↑ +55% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $52.20 | ↑ +107% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $56.55 | ↑ +124% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $60.90 | ↑ +141% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $65.25 | ↑ +159% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $69.60 | ↑ +176% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $69.60 | ↑ +176% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $69.60 | ↑ +176% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $73.95 | ↑ +193% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $73.95 | ↑ +193% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $76.56 | ↑ +203% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $78.30 | ↑ +210% |
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Culture body fluid at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $79.47 | $3.10 – $33.86 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $21.91 | $7.65 – $46.20 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $93.15 | $7.50 – $17.24 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $31.31 | $7.65 – $46.20 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $15.15 | $4.31 – $18.79 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $79.47 | $6.04 – $33.86 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $79.47 | $6.04 – $33.86 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $79.49 | $6.04 – $33.86 |