Parathyrd planar w/spect&ct at UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center
1795 Highway 64 Est, Anamosa, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1164514741
$869.60
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.
$1,087.00
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.
$67.70 with Humana vs $198.35 with Aetna — 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 | $67.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $67.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $67.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $69.05 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $71.09 | ↓ -92% |
| Iowa Health | Medicare Advantage | $71.09 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $98.56 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $98.56 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $123.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $123.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $142.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $145.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $158.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | HMO | $171.56 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | PPO | $198.35 | ↓ -77% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $725.40 | $398.41 – $1,135.13 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $1,377.35 | $500.00 – $2,119.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $3,048.50 | $512.50 – $4,690.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $2,434.90 | $525.38 – $3,746.00 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $1,385.80 | $501.02 – $2,132.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,409.06 | $67.70 – $928.22 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $869.60 | $67.70 – $473.26 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $869.60 | $67.70 – $535.56 |