Ghs cricothyroidotomy at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital
1026 A Avenue N.E, Cedar Rapids, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1083708226
$930.28
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.
$1,162.85
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.
$204.26 with Iowa Total Care vs $715.60 with Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield — 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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| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $204.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $204.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $219.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $219.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $219.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $226.06 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $226.06 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $226.06 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $348.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $388.39 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | HMO | $411.45 | ↓ -56% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $436.07 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | PPO | $471.38 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $578.15 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $578.15 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellmark UHP Self-Funded | Commercial | $608.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $608.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $637.24 | ↓ -32% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $715.60 | ↓ -23% |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $1,033.80 | $222.29 – $311.20 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $1,248.60 | $222.29 – $311.20 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $1,248.60 | $696.42 – $707.54 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $970.24 | $192.48 – $774.44 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $827.20 | $204.18 – $951.28 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $827.20 | $221.08 – $774.44 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $827.20 | $221.08 – $608.20 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | $930.04 | $290.90 – $1,031.17 |