Barium Swallow (Esophagus X-ray) at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline
2701 17th St, Rock Island, IL · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1316047632
$434.76
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.
$543.44
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.
$26.35 with Aetna vs $239.66 with Medica Exchange Insure — 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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| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $26.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $26.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $26.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $26.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $26.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $27.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $27.67 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $27.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina Medicare Options & Molina | MMAI Medicare Advantage | $27.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $27.67 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $38.17 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $38.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $44.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $48.50 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | HMO | $52.26 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $55.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | PPO | $60.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $65.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $65.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $138.49 | ↓ -68% |
| BC Illinois Community | MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) | $174.44 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | POS | $181.99 | ↓ -58% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $214.12 | ↓ -51% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $239.66 | ↓ -45% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina Healthcare | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna Better Health | Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Barium Swallow (Esophagus X-ray) at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $321.60 | $54.71 – $493.12 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $321.60 | $148.16 – $251.92 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $175.00 | $102.44 – $304.50 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $415.00 | $220.00 – $664.00 |
| Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Chicago | $828.10 | not published |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $415.00 | $195.00 – $664.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $415.00 | $220.00 – $664.00 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $175.00 | $102.44 – $304.50 |