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Abdominal Ultrasound (limited) at UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center
1795 Highway 64 Est, Anamosa, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1164514741
$490.60
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.
$613.24
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.
$25.73 with Aetna vs $543.94 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 | $25.73 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $25.73 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $25.73 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $26.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Iowa Health | Medicare Advantage | $27.02 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $27.02 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $37.28 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $37.28 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $49.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $49.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $54.08 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $54.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $57.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | HMO | $62.99 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | PPO | $72.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $269.83 | ↓ -45% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $269.83 | ↓ -45% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $485.69 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $543.94 | ↑ +11% |
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Abdominal Ultrasound (limited) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $888.34 | $25.73 – $326.46 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $556.40 | $338.89 – $856.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $448.50 | $25.73 – $295.45 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $624.00 | $96.27 – $960.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $556.40 | $327.16 – $856.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $556.40 | $440.58 – $894.69 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $1,259.00 | $98.68 – $1,259.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $1,829.00 | $17.47 – $1,259.00 |