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Repair of facial nerve 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

$9,175.45

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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.

$11,469.31

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.

$772.39 with Aetna vs $5,510.71 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 $772.39 ↓ -92%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $772.39 ↓ -92%
Ambetter HMO $772.39 ↓ -92%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $787.84 ↓ -91%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $811.01 ↓ -91%
Humana Medicare Advantage $811.01 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $811.01 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $1,644.68 ↓ -82%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $1,667.90 ↓ -82%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $1,667.90 ↓ -82%
Aetna HMO $1,939.38 ↓ -79%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $1,962.20 ↓ -79%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $2,057.75 ↓ -78%
Aetna PPO $2,360.24 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare PPO $2,677.68 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare HMO $2,677.68 ↓ -71%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $4,014.26 ↓ -56%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $4,495.97 ↓ -51%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $5,510.71 ↓ -40%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $5,510.71 ↓ -40%

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Repair of facial nerve at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $2,142.40 $772.39 – $5,308.18
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $2,142.40 $772.39 – $5,630.65
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $2,142.40 $772.39 – $6,371.83
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $2,142.40 $772.39 – $6,170.01
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $2,142.40 $772.39 – $2,057.75
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $2,142.40 $772.39 – $6,231.78
UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown Sioux City $2,142.40 $696.28 – $5,671.59
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine Muscatine $9,175.45 $772.39 – $5,530.82

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