Culture anaerobic except blood at NORTHCREST MEDICAL CENTER
100 NORTHCREST DRIVE, SPRINGFIELD, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1093397184
$277.62
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.
$277.62
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.
$4.26 with Wellpoint vs $227.65 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 | $4.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $7.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | COMM | $7.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthspring | MCRPOS | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMO | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthspring | DualEligible | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | MCR | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Alive Hospice | MCR | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | MCD | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| United | CorePayer | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MASNP | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $9.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $9.56 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $9.56 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $9.56 | ↓ -97% |
| United | MGMCR | $9.66 | ↓ -97% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $9.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Ambetter | Select | $9.85 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | MCR | $9.85 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $9.94 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $9.94 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $9.94 | ↓ -96% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $9.94 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $9.94 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $9.94 | ↓ -96% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $10.23 | ↓ -96% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $10.42 | ↓ -96% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $10.89 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellcare | MGMCD | $12.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellcare | CHIP | $12.50 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $12.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $13.64 | ↓ -95% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $13.92 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $16.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | OAP | $18.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Oscar | HIX | $28.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $37.88 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $37.88 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $37.88 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $37.88 | ↓ -86% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $52.75 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $61.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | PPO | $81.34 | ↓ -71% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $124.93 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NAP | $138.81 | ↓ -50% |
| City of Springfield | COMM | $180.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $216.54 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $227.65 | ↓ -18% |
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Culture anaerobic except blood at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $254.52 | $3.41 – $36.12 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $24.57 | $8.41 – $58.10 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $66.70 | $8.24 – $18.94 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $35.11 | $8.41 – $58.10 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $16.50 | $4.74 – $20.64 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $254.52 | $6.63 – $36.12 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $254.52 | $6.63 – $36.12 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $254.52 | $6.63 – $36.12 |