Endo sleeve gastro w/tube at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf
4500 Utica Ridge Road, Bettendorf, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1124110820
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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.
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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.
$9,791.13 with Aetna vs $26,737.65 with United Healthcare — 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 | $9,791.13 | — |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $9,791.13 | — |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $9,791.13 | — |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $10,079.10 | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $10,079.10 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $10,079.10 | — |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $15,016.28 | — |
| Ambetter | HMO | $15,358.63 | — |
| Aetna | HMO | $22,534.35 | — |
| Aetna | PPO | $25,686.83 | — |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $26,737.65 | — |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $26,737.65 | — |
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Endo sleeve gastro w/tube at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $22,904.69 | $9,791.13 – $18,524.17 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $22,904.69 | $9,791.13 – $22,847.43 |
| CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs | Council Bluffs | $6,591.06 | $2,353.95 – $13,339.05 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | not published | $9,965.83 – $13,952.16 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | not published | $9,965.83 – $13,952.16 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | not published | $10,166.42 – $19,011.75 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | not published | $9,911.55 – $10,203.07 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | not published | $9,911.55 – $13,457.56 |