Wound therapy negative pressure per session > 50 sq cm at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital
1026 A Avenue N.E, Cedar Rapids, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1083708226
$616.00
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.
$770.00
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.
$21.67 with Aetna vs $351.41 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 | $21.67 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $22.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $22.10 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $22.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $22.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $22.75 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $23.87 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $23.87 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $35.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $35.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $35.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark UHP Self-Funded | Commercial | $35.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $36.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | PPO | $45.56 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | HMO | $45.56 | ↓ -93% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $152.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $171.33 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $351.41 | ↓ -43% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $351.41 | ↓ -43% |
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Wound therapy negative pressure per session > 50 sq cm at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $412.80 | $382.44 – $447.20 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $545.35 | $287.00 – $839.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $423.80 | $246.46 – $733.89 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $742.95 | $19.36 – $1,143.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $423.80 | $335.58 – $681.47 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $706.00 | $141.91 – $789.21 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $425.75 | $19.36 – $645.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $652.00 | $178.91 – $652.00 |