MRI orbit/face/neck without contrast at UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center
1795 Highway 64 Est, Anamosa, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1164514741
$2,403.39
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.
$3,004.23
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.
$58.73 with Aetna vs $2,664.75 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 | $58.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $58.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $58.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $59.90 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $61.67 | ↓ -97% |
| Iowa Health | Medicare Advantage | $61.67 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $85.53 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $85.53 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $124.53 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $129.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $140.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $140.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | HMO | $150.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $165.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | PPO | $172.89 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $1,321.86 | ↓ -45% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $1,321.86 | ↓ -45% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $2,379.35 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $2,664.75 | ↑ +11% |
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MRI orbit/face/neck without contrast at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $1,393.80 | $231.38 – $323.93 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $1,742.00 | $214.06 – $2,680.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $4,905.00 | $225.21 – $4,905.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $3,188.25 | $225.21 – $4,905.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $4,051.00 | $1,111.59 – $4,051.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $1,522.20 | $231.38 – $323.93 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $1,522.20 | $862.58 – $1,852.01 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $2,171.00 | $224.79 – $3,340.00 |