Audiometry air + bone at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital
1026 A Avenue N.E, Cedar Rapids, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1083708226
$248.87
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.
$311.08
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.
$42.67 with Aetna vs $137.61 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 | $42.67 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $43.52 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $43.52 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $44.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $44.80 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $44.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $63.62 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | HMO | $79.09 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellmark UHP Self-Funded | Commercial | $82.30 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $82.30 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $93.11 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $93.11 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | PPO | $93.81 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $96.80 | ↓ -61% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $103.90 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $106.89 | ↓ -57% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $116.66 | ↓ -53% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $137.61 | ↓ -45% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $137.61 | ↓ -45% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $64.80 | $45.50 – $149.77 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $67.80 | $50.70 – $149.77 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $67.80 | $82.49 – $2,679.00 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $195.00 | $22.74 – $248.63 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $171.55 | $42.67 – $129.68 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $85.60 | $42.67 – $137.56 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $85.60 | $42.67 – $155.67 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $121.47 | $39.78 – $150.74 |