Ecg external > 48 hours up to 7 days recording at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$35.28
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.
$84.00
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.
$12.60 with Centene vs $84.92 with AMPS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $12.60 | ↓ -64% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $22.28 | ↓ -37% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $22.45 | ↓ -36% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.51 | ↓ -33% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $23.52 | ↓ -33% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $37.27 | ↑ +6% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $37.27 | ↑ +6% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $38.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $38.25 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $38.25 | ↑ +8% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $38.25 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $38.25 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $38.64 | ↑ +10% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $39.02 | ↑ +11% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $39.40 | ↑ +12% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $39.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $39.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $39.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $40.16 | ↑ +14% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $40.16 | ↑ +14% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $43.68 | ↑ +24% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $45.36 | ↑ +29% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $45.36 | ↑ +29% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $45.36 | ↑ +29% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $45.36 | ↑ +29% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $50.40 | ↑ +43% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $54.60 | ↑ +55% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $59.64 | ↑ +69% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $62.16 | ↑ +76% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $63.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $63.00 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $71.40 | ↑ +102% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $84.92 | ↑ +141% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $63.60 | $37.57 – $52.60 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $84.50 | $33.51 – $331.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $219.70 | $133.81 – $338.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $42.25 | $18.40 – $422.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $219.70 | $129.18 – $338.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $564.20 | $35.19 – $1,610.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $219.70 | $173.97 – $353.28 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $92.00 | $18.49 – $530.00 |