Injection epidural blood patch or clot 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

$1,290.64

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.

Full explanation →

What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$1,613.30

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.

Full explanation →

The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$103.07 with Humana vs $1,431.00 with Medica Exchange Insure — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
?

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
Humana Medicare Advantage $103.07 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $103.07 ↓ -92%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $103.07 ↓ -92%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $105.13 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $108.22 ↓ -92%
Iowa Health Medicare Advantage $108.22 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $214.35 ↓ -83%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $217.60 ↓ -83%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $217.60 ↓ -83%
Aetna HMO $253.32 ↓ -80%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $255.90 ↓ -80%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $274.51 ↓ -79%
Aetna PPO $308.26 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare PPO $360.07 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare HMO $360.07 ↓ -72%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $709.85 ↓ -45%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $709.85 ↓ -45%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $1,277.73 ↓ -1%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $1,431.00 ↑ +11%

Visitor-reported prices

visitor-reported
Report what you paid sign in to post

Comments

Add a comment sign in to post

Injection epidural blood patch or clot at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $768.60 $662.89 – $832.65
MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center Dubuque $1,591.85 $633.28 – $2,449.00
MercyOne Clinton Medical Center Clinton $1,832.35 $650.02 – $2,819.00
MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center West Des Moines $8,073.00 $666.27 – $8,073.00
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Des Moines $9,638.25 $9.09 – $8,073.00
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center Mason City $1,963.00 $683.01 – $3,020.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $928.20 $662.89 – $928.05
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt $928.20 $407.34 – $525.98

All Iowa hospitals for this procedure →