Tongue biopsy; posterior one-third 41105 at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf
4500 Utica Ridge Road, Bettendorf, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1124110820
$435.20
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.
$544.00
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.
$100.42 with Aetna vs $2,790.66 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 | $100.42 | ↓ -77% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $100.42 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $100.42 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $102.43 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $105.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $105.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $105.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $210.84 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $215.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $215.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | HMO | $251.98 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $252.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $267.39 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | PPO | $306.92 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $337.25 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $337.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $2,790.66 | ↑ +541% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $2,790.66 | ↑ +541% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Tongue biopsy; posterior one-third 41105 at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $315.00 | not published |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $17,893.42 | $27.21 – $6,436.67 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $330.60 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $330.60 | $402.23 – $2,679.00 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $5,712.85 | $2,065.42 – $8,789.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $435.20 | $100.42 – $2,688.10 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $435.20 | $100.42 – $2,851.40 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $435.20 | $100.42 – $3,226.74 |