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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center
1795 Highway 64 Est, Anamosa, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1164514741
$766.35
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.
$957.93
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.
$34.44 with Aetna vs $849.68 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 | $34.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $34.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $34.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $35.13 | ↓ -95% |
| Iowa Health | Medicare Advantage | $36.16 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $36.16 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $67.66 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $69.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $69.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $81.20 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | HMO | $83.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $90.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | PPO | $96.50 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $102.24 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $102.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $421.49 | ↓ -45% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $421.49 | ↓ -45% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $758.68 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $849.68 | ↑ +11% |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $986.07 | $34.44 – $362.38 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,059.82 | $34.44 – $698.15 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $1,216.15 | $219.72 – $1,871.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $719.55 | $569.77 – $1,157.04 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $2,462.00 | $23.86 – $1,595.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $544.80 | $231.38 – $295.43 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $830.70 | $214.06 – $1,278.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $719.55 | $438.26 – $1,107.00 |