Catheterization collection of specimen single patient all places of service at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$87.78
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.
$209.00
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.
$9.09 with United vs $3,259.25 with Timpte — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -90% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $9.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $9.36 | ↓ -89% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $9.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $9.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $16.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $17.62 | ↓ -80% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.45 | ↓ -79% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $20.18 | ↓ -77% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $31.35 | ↓ -64% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $58.52 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $96.14 | ↑ +10% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $108.68 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $108.68 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $125.40 | ↑ +43% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $135.85 | ↑ +55% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $148.39 | ↑ +69% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $154.66 | ↑ +76% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $156.75 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $177.65 | ↑ +102% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,834.13 | ↑ +3129% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,834.13 | ↑ +3129% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,834.13 | ↑ +3129% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +3613% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +3613% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +3613% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +3613% |
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Catheterization collection of specimen single patient all places of service at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $22.75 | $8.57 – $35.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $49.40 | $8.57 – $76.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $70.20 | $9.15 – $108.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $70.20 | $9.15 – $108.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $125.00 | $8.57 – $125.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $17.55 | $5.43 – $27.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $108.00 | $9.15 – $108.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $70.20 | $9.15 – $108.00 |