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Eeg without vid ea 12-26hr intmt at UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center

1795 Highway 64 Est, Anamosa, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1164514741

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

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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.

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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.

$530.60 with Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield vs $2,011.10 with United Healthcare — 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
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $530.60
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $530.60
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $530.60
Aetna Medicare Advantage $630.92
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $630.92
Humana Medicare Advantage $630.92
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $643.54
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $662.47
Iowa Health Medicare Advantage $662.47
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $1,171.21
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $1,801.33
United Healthcare HMO $2,011.10
United Healthcare PPO $2,011.10

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Eeg without vid ea 12-26hr intmt at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $1,009.88 $439.80 – $816.73
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $2,048.72 $466.52 – $2,048.71
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $1,959.70 $505.13 – $1,528.56
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $2,096.88 $505.13 – $1,134.93
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $1,009.88 $441.82 – $1,007.35
UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown Sioux City $990.36 $321.87 – $804.67
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Bettendorf $2,156.63 $456.58 – $1,420.68
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine Muscatine $2,156.63 $458.25 – $1,474.59

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