Culture bact stool aero addl path ea at NORTHCREST MEDICAL CENTER
100 NORTHCREST DRIVE, SPRINGFIELD, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1093397184
$1,292.37
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.
$1,292.37
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.
$4.25 with Wellpoint vs $1,059.74 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 | $4.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $7.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | COMM | $7.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRPPO | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRPOS | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | MCRHMO | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthspring | DualEligible | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | HIX | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellcare | MCR | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Alive Hospice | MCR | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | MCD | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| United | CorePayer | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| United | HeritageSelect | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MASNP | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $9.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $9.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $9.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $9.53 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MGMCR | $9.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Zing | MGMCR | $9.72 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | Select | $9.81 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | MCR | $9.82 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $9.91 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $9.91 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $9.91 | ↓ -99% |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $9.91 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $9.91 | ↓ -99% |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $9.91 | ↓ -99% |
| Ambetter | CORE | $10.19 | ↓ -99% |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $10.38 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $10.86 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellcare | MGMCD | $12.46 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellcare | CHIP | $12.46 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | NetworkP | $12.88 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $13.59 | ↓ -99% |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $13.88 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $16.72 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | OAP | $18.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Oscar | HIX | $28.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $37.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $37.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $37.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $37.76 | ↓ -97% |
| NHC Advantage, Inc. | MCRHMO | $245.55 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $285.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | PPO | $378.66 | ↓ -71% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $581.57 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NAP | $646.18 | ↓ -50% |
| City of Springfield | COMM | $840.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | ComplementaryNetwork | $1,008.05 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $1,059.74 | ↓ -18% |
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Culture bact stool aero addl path ea at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $105.90 | $2.65 – $36.12 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $33.45 | $2.97 – $79.10 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $37.95 | $2.65 – $18.88 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $47.80 | $2.97 – $79.10 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $16.50 | $3.07 – $20.58 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $105.90 | $2.65 – $36.12 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $105.90 | $2.65 – $36.12 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | $105.90 | $3.96 – $36.12 |