Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital
1026 A Avenue N.E, Cedar Rapids, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1083708226
$3,795.04
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.
$4,743.80
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.
$158.72 with Health Partners Open Network vs $1,724.14 with United Healthcare — 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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| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $158.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | HMO | $186.29 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | PPO | $227.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $230.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark UHP Self-Funded | Commercial | $230.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $271.10 | ↓ -93% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $283.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $317.75 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $464.33 | ↓ -88% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $609.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $609.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $654.88 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $654.88 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $654.88 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $674.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $674.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $674.14 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $1,724.14 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,724.14 | ↓ -55% |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $673.80 | $662.89 – $729.95 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $1,126.45 | $457.26 – $1,155.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $3,372.20 | $92.05 – $3,459.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $1,877.85 | $92.05 – $3,576.15 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $2,968.75 | $9.60 – $1,899.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $1,733.00 | $316.93 – $1,155.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $2,261.28 | $9.60 – $1,155.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $3,238.30 | $85.13 – $3,321.00 |