Allograft amnioexcel plus 17mm disk at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$222.60
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.
$530.00
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.
$19.85 with Centene vs $215.11 with Medica — 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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| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $19.85 | ↓ -91% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $37.05 | ↓ -83% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $38.37 | ↓ -83% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $38.37 | ↓ -83% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $38.37 | ↓ -83% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $43.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $43.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $43.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $43.66 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $60.86 | ↓ -73% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $79.38 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $88.88 | ↓ -60% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $93.94 | ↓ -58% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $99.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $99.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $99.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|HMO | $104.91 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|PPO | $104.91 | ↓ -53% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $112.46 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $118.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $132.30 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $192.52 | ↓ -14% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $205.41 | ↓ -8% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $215.11 | ↓ -3% |
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| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | not published | $83.54 – $405.42 |
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| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | not published | $83.54 – $405.42 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown | Sioux City | not published | $83.54 – $405.42 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf | Bettendorf | not published | $83.54 – $405.42 |