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Screening Colonoscopy (high risk) at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf
4500 Utica Ridge Road, Bettendorf, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1124110820
$813.60
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.
$1,017.00
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.
$82.41 with Aetna vs $784.53 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 | $82.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $82.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $82.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $84.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $86.53 | ↓ -89% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $86.53 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $86.53 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $112.27 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $216.11 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $351.70 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $351.70 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $413.70 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | HMO | $453.02 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | PPO | $550.86 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $581.92 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $581.92 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $784.53 | ↓ -4% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $784.53 | ↓ -4% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Screening Colonoscopy (high risk) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $813.60 | $82.41 – $878.39 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $813.60 | $82.41 – $755.69 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $612.60 | not published |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $3,856.77 | $2.46 – $1,858.14 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $661.70 | $384.80 – $1,145.86 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $8,635.22 | $2.28 – $1,990.07 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $5,831.60 | $2.28 – $4,235.59 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $6,650.75 | $0.96 – $3.24 |