Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center
1795 Highway 64 Est, Anamosa, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1164514741
$4,159.89
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.
$5,199.86
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.
$101.33 with Humana vs $2,306.14 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 | $101.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $101.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $101.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $103.36 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $106.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Iowa Health | Medicare Advantage | $106.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $210.64 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $213.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $213.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | HMO | $250.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $251.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $270.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | PPO | $305.59 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $352.58 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $352.58 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $1,143.97 | ↓ -72% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $1,143.97 | ↓ -72% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $2,059.14 | ↓ -51% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $2,306.14 | ↓ -45% |
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Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $1,599.60 | $852.20 – $1,155.05 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $6,399.90 | $25.81 – $6,564.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $3,047.85 | $814.47 – $3,126.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $6,747.35 | $833.27 – $4,427.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $4,990.65 | $1.92 – $3,282.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $9,846.00 | $25.81 – $895.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $6,399.90 | $837.21 – $6,564.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $3,916.90 | $855.81 – $4,017.00 |