Chest X-ray Cost in Knoxville, TN

Understanding the price columns The gross charge is the hospital's list price, also called the chargemaster rate. For code 71046 in Knoxville, gross charges are $248 at six hospitals, $316.50 at UT Medical Center, and $765.99 at three Tennova facilities. The cash price is the rate offered to a self-pay patient. It ranges from $74.40 at Parkwest to $206.82 at LaFollette Medical Center, which is 30% and 27% of gross respectively. LaFollette's percentage discount is larger than Parkwest's, yet its cash price is still higher because it starts from a much higher gross charge. The insured range shows the lowest and highest negotiated rates across health plans. At Parkwest it runs from $17.98 to $223.20. A patient on a high-deductible plan who has not yet met the deductible owes the negotiated rate, not the gross charge. What code 71046 covers Code 71046 describes a chest X-ray with two views. Only this code appears in the dataset, so there are no code variants to compare. The code describes the imaging service itself. The radiologist's interpretation is a separate professional service.

Hospital pricing structures Gross charges for code 71046 span $248 to $765.99, a gap of $517.99. Cash prices span $74.40 to $206.82, a gap of $132.42. The gap narrows because the Tennova facilities and LaFollette apply larger discounts to their higher gross charges. Cash-to-gross ratios run from about 22% at Tennova Turkey Creek to about 33% at Fort Loudoun, Fort Sanders Regional, Methodist Oak Ridge, and Roane Medical Center. UT Medical Center's cash price of $79.12 is 25% of its $316.50 gross charge. Each hospital sets its own chargemaster and its own self-pay discount policy, so the same service carries different figures. Facility type and alternatives The dataset includes one academic medical center (UT Medical Center), community hospitals, and a rural facility (LaFollette). Cash prices across all nine hospitals range from $74.40 to $206.82. Outpatient or freestanding imaging facilities are not in this dataset and may charge differently from hospitals.