Acute hepatitis panel at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$319.62
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.
$761.00
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.
$46.16 with Amerigroup vs $646.85 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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| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $46.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $46.16 | ↓ -86% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $47.06 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $47.63 | ↓ -85% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $47.63 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $47.63 | ↓ -85% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $47.63 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $47.63 | ↓ -85% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $48.58 | ↓ -85% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $49.06 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $50.01 | ↓ -84% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $50.01 | ↓ -84% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $91.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $97.93 | ↓ -69% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $102.55 | ↓ -68% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $105.74 | ↓ -67% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $114.15 | ↓ -64% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $153.54 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $200.33 | ↓ -37% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $213.08 | ↓ -33% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $291.13 | ↓ -9% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $291.13 | ↓ -9% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $291.13 | ↓ -9% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $334.80 | ↑ +5% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $334.80 | ↑ +5% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $334.80 | ↑ +5% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $334.80 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $350.06 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $395.72 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $395.72 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $456.60 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $540.31 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $570.75 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $646.85 | ↑ +102% |
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Acute hepatitis panel at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $450.60 | $47.63 – $47.63 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $352.30 | $46.16 – $542.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $316.55 | $192.80 – $487.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $316.55 | $184.09 – $548.17 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $328.25 | $46.16 – $505.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $1,110.00 | $9.09 – $487.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $241.15 | $46.16 – $371.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $316.55 | $250.66 – $509.01 |