Explore inner ear at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf

4500 Utica Ridge Road, Bettendorf, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1124110820

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$5,112.00

Cash price

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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.

$6,390.00

Gross charge

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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.

$922.53 with Aetna vs $5,090.43 with Iowa Total Care — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare Advantage $922.53 ↓ -82%
Ambetter HMO $922.53 ↓ -82%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $922.53 ↓ -82%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $940.98 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $968.66 ↓ -81%
Humana Medicare Advantage $968.66 ↓ -81%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $968.66 ↓ -81%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $1,948.10 ↓ -62%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $1,948.10 ↓ -62%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $1,970.50 ↓ -61%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $2,291.90 ↓ -55%
Aetna HMO $2,346.84 ↓ -54%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $2,481.88 ↓ -51%
Aetna PPO $2,854.81 ↓ -44%
United Healthcare HMO $3,194.43 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare PPO $3,194.43 ↓ -38%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $5,090.43 ↓ -0%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $5,090.43 ↓ -0%
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