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Allergy Skin Testing at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital
1026 A Avenue N.E, Cedar Rapids, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1083708226
$12.80
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.
$16.00
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.
$3.13 with Aetna vs $894.86 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 | $3.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $3.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $3.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $3.29 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $3.29 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $3.29 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $4.90 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellmark UHP Self-Funded | Commercial | $4.90 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $5.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $8.24 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $10.25 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $10.28 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $10.28 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | HMO | $12.08 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | PPO | $12.74 | ↓ -0% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $894.86 | ↑ +6891% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $894.86 | ↑ +6891% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Allergy Skin Testing at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $12.80 | $3.13 – $980.21 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $12.80 | $3.13 – $843.29 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $30.00 | $2.55 – $14.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $85.15 | $33.54 – $1,860.44 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $14.95 | $2.55 – $1,659.34 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $12.80 | $3.13 – $894.52 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $12.80 | $3.13 – $1,012.27 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | $12.80 | $3.13 – $10.25 |