Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at CHI Health Mercy Corning
603 Rosary Drive, Corning, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1699856260
$627.36
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.
$1,307.00
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.
$212.75 with United vs $833.98 with MultiPlan — 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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| United | Medicare|All Plans | $212.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $212.75 | ↓ -66% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $212.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $212.75 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $212.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $217.01 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $223.39 | ↓ -64% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $223.39 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $365.93 | ↓ -42% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $373.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $373.25 | ↓ -41% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $380.57 | ↓ -39% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $472.31 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|PPO | $510.60 | ↓ -19% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|HMO | $510.60 | ↓ -19% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $774.41 | ↑ +23% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $774.41 | ↑ +23% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $816.96 | ↑ +30% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $833.98 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $833.98 | ↑ +33% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $833.98 | ↑ +33% |
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| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $6,659.90 | $29.61 – $10,246.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $2,052.00 | $563.07 – $2,052.00 |