Mid and Lower Back (Thoracolumbar Spine) X-ray at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline

2701 17th St, Rock Island, IL · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1316047632

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$310.55

Cash price

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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.

$388.18

Gross charge

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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.

$9.30 with Aetna vs $171.19 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare Advantage $9.30 ↓ -97%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $9.30 ↓ -97%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $9.30 ↓ -97%
Ambetter HMO $9.30 ↓ -97%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $9.49 ↓ -97%
Humana Medicare Advantage $9.77 ↓ -97%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $9.77 ↓ -97%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $9.77 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $9.77 ↓ -97%
Molina Medicare Options & Molina MMAI Medicare Advantage $9.77 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare PPO $13.91 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare HMO $13.91 ↓ -96%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $17.10 ↓ -94%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $19.78 ↓ -94%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $22.40 ↓ -93%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $23.51 ↓ -92%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $23.51 ↓ -92%
Aetna HMO $26.81 ↓ -91%
Aetna PPO $30.83 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield POS $64.98 ↓ -79%
BC Illinois Community MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) $64.98 ↓ -79%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $68.50 ↓ -78%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $152.94 ↓ -51%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $171.19 ↓ -45%
Molina Healthcare Managed Medicaid not published by hospital —
Meridian Health Plan 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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Mid and Lower Back (Thoracolumbar Spine) X-ray at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $165.00 $54.71 – $224.13
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $165.00 $60.00 – $129.25
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $125.00 $31.16 – $151.08
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $182.50 $111.57 – $634.00
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago $649.60 not published
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $202.50 $111.57 – $324.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $200.00 $111.57 – $634.00
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $125.00 $31.16 – $151.08

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