Circumcise/surg/28 days or < 54160 at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital

1026 A Avenue N.E, Cedar Rapids, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1083708226

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$1,479.87

Cash price

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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.

$1,849.83

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.

$131.90 with Aetna vs $693.69 with Medica Exchange Insure — 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 $131.90 ↓ -91%
Molina Medicare Advantage $134.54 ↓ -91%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $134.54 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $138.50 ↓ -91%
Humana Medicare Advantage $138.50 ↓ -91%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $138.50 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $272.96 ↓ -82%
Wellmark UHP Self-Funded Commercial $275.50 ↓ -81%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $275.50 ↓ -81%
Aetna HMO $320.34 ↓ -78%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $324.10 ↓ -78%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $352.24 ↓ -76%
Aetna PPO $388.70 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare HMO $456.10 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare PPO $456.10 ↓ -69%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $587.08 ↓ -60%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $587.08 ↓ -60%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $617.84 ↓ -58%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $693.69 ↓ -53%

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Circumcise/surg/28 days or < 54160 at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $414.60 not published
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $435.60 not published
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt $435.60 $529.98 – $2,679.00
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center Waterloo $525.00 $13.85 – $404.60
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $1,465.93 $131.90 – $965.68
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $545.60 $131.90 – $627.44
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $545.60 $131.90 – $664.10
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $2,431.50 $131.90 – $893.57

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