Electron microscopy diagnostic at UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center
1795 Highway 64 Est, Anamosa, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1164514741
$936.80
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.
$1,171.00
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.
$70.25 with Humana vs $872.05 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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| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $70.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $70.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $70.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $71.66 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $73.76 | ↓ -92% |
| Iowa Health | Medicare Advantage | $73.76 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $77.06 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $77.06 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $91.87 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $127.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $127.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $148.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $150.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | HMO | $176.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | PPO | $194.33 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $432.59 | ↓ -54% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $432.59 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $778.65 | ↓ -17% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $872.05 | ↓ -7% |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $630.00 | $682.50 – $781.95 |
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| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $1,272.05 | $553.83 – $1,957.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $2,878.85 | $759.04 – $4,429.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $455.00 | $360.29 – $731.64 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $666.00 | $133.87 – $1,564.16 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $1,743.95 | $133.87 – $1,564.16 |