#cf-97variants at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$1,063.86
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.
$2,533.00
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.
$379.95 with Centene vs $2,153.05 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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| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $379.95 | ↓ -64% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $539.35 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $539.35 | ↓ -49% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $549.92 | ↓ -48% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $556.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $556.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $556.60 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $556.60 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $556.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $567.73 | ↓ -47% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $573.30 | ↓ -46% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $584.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $584.43 | ↓ -45% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $709.24 | ↓ -33% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $1,071.95 | ↑ +1% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $1,144.37 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $1,165.18 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,198.36 | ↑ +13% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,235.65 | ↑ +16% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $1,317.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $1,317.16 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $1,519.80 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,798.43 | ↑ +69% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $1,874.42 | ↑ +76% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $1,899.75 | ↑ +79% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $1,899.75 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,153.05 | ↑ +102% |
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#cf-97variants at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $1,675.80 | $556.60 – $556.60 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $1,446.90 | $539.35 – $2,226.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $1,446.90 | $447.43 – $2,226.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $355.55 | $140.03 – $1,118.77 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $1,759.80 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $1,402.80 | $49.64 – $106.58 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $1,446.90 | $523.11 – $2,226.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,113.60 | $314.59 – $779.29 |