Chest CT scan (with and without contrast) at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$1,265.04
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.
$3,012.00
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.
$169.01 with Amerigroup vs $2,560.20 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 | $169.01 | ↓ -87% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $169.01 | ↓ -87% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $172.33 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $173.49 | ↓ -86% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $173.49 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $173.49 | ↓ -86% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $173.49 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $173.49 | ↓ -86% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $176.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $178.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $182.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $182.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $269.66 | ↓ -79% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $385.15 | ↓ -70% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $392.65 | ↓ -69% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $411.18 | ↓ -67% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $451.80 | ↓ -64% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $543.77 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $673.27 | ↓ -47% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $843.36 | ↓ -33% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $940.56 | ↓ -26% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $940.56 | ↓ -26% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $940.56 | ↓ -26% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,081.64 | ↓ -14% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,081.64 | ↓ -14% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,081.64 | ↓ -14% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,081.64 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $1,385.52 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $1,566.24 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $1,566.24 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $1,807.20 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,138.52 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $2,259.00 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,560.20 | ↑ +102% |
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Chest CT scan (with and without contrast) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $1,426.80 | $170.40 – $238.57 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $2,252.90 | $1,372.19 – $3,466.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $2,531.10 | $161.52 – $3,894.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $3,527.55 | $165.25 – $5,427.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $5,747.00 | $165.56 – $5,747.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $2,259.40 | $165.56 – $3,476.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $2,252.90 | $166.03 – $3,466.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $3,938.00 | $169.72 – $3,743.00 |