Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital
1026 A Avenue N.E, Cedar Rapids, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1083708226
$682.10
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.
$852.62
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.
$284.78 with Medica Exchange Inspire vs $1,212.72 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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| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $284.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $319.73 | ↓ -53% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $428.44 | ↓ -37% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $428.44 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $467.24 | ↓ -31% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $487.10 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $487.10 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellmark UHP Self-Funded | Commercial | $487.10 | ↓ -29% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $496.84 | ↓ -27% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $496.84 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $496.84 | ↓ -27% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $511.46 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $511.46 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $511.46 | ↓ -25% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $772.43 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | HMO | $950.51 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | PPO | $982.45 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $1,212.72 | ↑ +78% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,212.72 | ↑ +78% |
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Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $942.60 | $466.26 – $652.77 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $713.05 | $306.00 – $1,097.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $953.55 | $580.79 – $1,467.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $953.55 | $554.53 – $1,651.26 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $616.85 | $268.57 – $1,101.30 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $953.55 | $560.69 – $1,467.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $877.50 | $317.25 – $1,350.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $953.55 | $755.06 – $1,533.31 |