Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at NORTHCREST MEDICAL CENTER
100 NORTHCREST DRIVE, SPRINGFIELD, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1093397184
$349.02
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.
$349.02
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.
$7.55 with Wellpoint vs $286.20 with Multiplan — 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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| Wellpoint | MGMCD | $7.55 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $13.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | COMM | $13.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthspring | MCRPOS | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMO | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthspring | DualEligible | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellcare | MCR | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Alive Hospice | MCR | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | MCD | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| United | CorePayer | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MASNP | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $16.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $16.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $16.94 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $16.94 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MGMCR | $17.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $17.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Ambetter | Select | $17.44 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | MCR | $17.44 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $17.61 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $17.61 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $17.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $17.61 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $17.61 | ↓ -95% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $17.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $18.11 | ↓ -95% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $18.45 | ↓ -95% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $19.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellcare | MGMCD | $22.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellcare | CHIP | $22.14 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $22.89 | ↓ -93% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $24.15 | ↓ -93% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $24.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $29.99 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | OAP | $34.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Oscar | HIX | $50.31 | ↓ -86% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $66.31 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $67.08 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $67.08 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $67.08 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $67.08 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $77.13 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | PPO | $102.26 | ↓ -71% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $157.06 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NAP | $174.51 | ↓ -50% |
| City of Springfield | COMM | $226.86 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $272.24 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $286.20 | ↓ -18% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $80.12 | $6.04 – $65.46 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $27.24 | $14.90 – $64.40 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $67.62 | $14.59 – $33.54 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $38.92 | $14.90 – $64.40 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $29.40 | $8.39 – $36.56 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $80.12 | $11.76 – $65.46 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $80.12 | $11.76 – $65.46 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $80.12 | $11.76 – $65.46 |