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Tennessee Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Tennessee — drawn from 40 hospitals' machine-readable files. Figures are medians with robust 10th–90th-percentile ranges across hospitals in the state.

The same procedure, wildly different prices

Even within Tennessee, the negotiated price at a pricier hospital can be many times what a cheaper one charges — for the same service.

ProcedureTypical range (10th–90th pct)MedianHospitals
Initial Hospital Admission (Level 1)$84 – $1,750$16016
Allergy Skin Testing$95 – $1,045$97514
IUD Insertion$197 – $1,777$41625
Emergency Room Visit (Level 3)$125 – $859$28434
CT Head without Contrast$98 – $562$17433
Total Hip Replacement$3,449 – $19,564$12,21921
MRI Knee without Contrast$232 – $1,204$46631
Office Visit, New Patient (Level 3)$70 – $364$10929

Cash can beat the list price

The “gross” charge is the hospital's list price; the cash price is what many will accept from a self-pay patient. For these procedures in Tennessee, the cash price is a fraction of the list price.

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection$448$2,986
Pacemaker Insertion (Dual Chamber)$4,346$28,971
Home Sleep Study$261$1,738
Coronary Angioplasty with Stent$3,340$22,265
MRI Brain with Contrast$637$4,245
Cardiac Catheterization (Left Heart)$2,405$16,036

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Tennessee

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
Cardiac Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation$21,69126
Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Posterior)$17,29615
Total Knee Replacement$12,21921
Total Hip Replacement$12,21921
Cervical Spinal Fusion (Anterior)$12,10115
Coronary Angioplasty with Stent$10,76230

Medians and percentiles are computed across each hospital's representative facility price, from its latest machine-readable file. See methodology for how prices are derived.

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