Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$10,025.40
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.
$23,870.00
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.
$404.71 with Centene vs $4,172.28 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 | $404.71 | ↓ -96% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $755.46 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $814.54 | ↓ -92% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $814.54 | ↓ -92% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $814.54 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $814.54 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $814.54 | ↓ -92% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $830.83 | ↓ -92% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $838.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $855.27 | ↓ -91% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $855.27 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $910.18 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|HMO | $1,101.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|PPO | $1,101.74 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,213.58 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $1,241.11 | ↓ -88% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $1,402.99 | ↓ -86% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $1,618.83 | ↓ -84% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,808.28 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $1,884.98 | ↓ -81% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,915.62 | ↓ -81% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $2,023.54 | ↓ -80% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $2,023.54 | ↓ -80% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,195.83 | ↓ -78% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,195.83 | ↓ -78% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,195.83 | ↓ -78% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $2,245.95 | ↓ -78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,293.35 | ↓ -77% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,525.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,525.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,525.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,525.19 | ↓ -75% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $2,752.02 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,752.02 | ↓ -73% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,805.98 | ↓ -72% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $3,984.30 | ↓ -60% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,172.28 | ↓ -58% |
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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $5,560.00 | $835.80 – $1,170.12 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $2,177.05 | $777.21 – $3,278.90 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $2,177.05 | $861.89 – $2,177.05 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $2,177.05 | $822.92 – $2,450.49 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $2,177.05 | $616.11 – $3,278.90 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $2,177.05 | $511.61 – $3,278.90 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $3,679.20 | $739.52 – $3,679.20 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $3,679.20 | $739.52 – $3,679.20 |