Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf
4500 Utica Ridge Road, Bettendorf, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1124110820
$1,220.81
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.
$1,526.01
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.
$136.88 with Aetna vs $1,336.74 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.
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 | $136.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $136.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $136.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $139.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $143.72 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $143.72 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $143.72 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $284.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $284.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $327.12 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $334.20 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $365.62 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | HMO | $380.65 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | PPO | $463.73 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $489.04 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $489.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $534.10 | ↓ -56% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $598.20 | ↓ -51% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $1,336.74 | ↑ +9% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $1,336.74 | ↑ +9% |
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| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $1,828.45 | $7.11 – $3,056.08 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $656.00 | $7.11 – $52.48 |