Ghs layer closure 2.6 - 7.5 cm - 12042 at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$369.60
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.
$880.00
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.
$132.00 with Centene 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $132.00 | ↓ -64% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $246.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $371.51 | ↑ +1% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $379.33 | ↑ +3% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $379.33 | ↑ +3% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $386.77 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $389.37 | ↑ +5% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $389.37 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $389.37 | ↑ +5% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $389.37 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $389.37 | ↑ +5% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $397.16 | ↑ +7% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $401.05 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $404.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $408.84 | ↑ +11% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $408.84 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $413.60 | ↑ +12% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $457.60 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $457.60 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $528.00 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $624.80 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $660.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $701.00 | ↑ +90% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $748.00 | ↑ +102% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $864.40 | ↑ +134% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $953.00 | ↑ +158% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,302.00 | ↑ +252% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,834.13 | ↑ +667% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,834.13 | ↑ +667% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,834.13 | ↑ +667% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +782% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +782% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +782% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,259.25 | ↑ +782% |
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Ghs layer closure 2.6 - 7.5 cm - 12042 at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $524.40 | $355.55 – $382.44 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $650.00 | $395.90 – $1,000.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $668.85 | $388.96 – $1,158.24 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $646.00 | $49.78 – $880.71 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $573.60 | $382.44 – $429.65 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $550.80 | $224.74 – $482.53 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $738.40 | $174.72 – $365.90 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $738.40 | $104.99 – $365.90 |