Hemoglobin at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$29.40
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.
$70.00
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.
$2.29 with Amerigroup vs $56.10 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 | $2.29 | ↓ -92% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $2.29 | ↓ -92% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.34 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -92% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -92% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -92% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $2.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $2.44 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $2.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $2.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $4.41 | ↓ -85% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $4.87 | ↓ -83% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.10 | ↓ -83% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $5.26 | ↓ -82% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $7.64 | ↓ -74% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $9.90 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $9.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $16.24 | ↓ -45% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $16.24 | ↓ -45% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $16.24 | ↓ -45% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $18.48 | ↓ -37% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $18.67 | ↓ -36% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $18.67 | ↓ -36% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $18.67 | ↓ -36% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $18.67 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $30.36 | ↑ +3% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $34.32 | ↑ +17% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $34.32 | ↑ +17% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $39.60 | ↑ +35% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $46.86 | ↑ +59% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $49.50 | ↑ +68% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $56.10 | ↑ +91% |
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Hemoglobin at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $25.20 | $2.37 – $2.37 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $25.35 | $1.84 – $39.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $223.00 | $9.09 – $39.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $96.00 | $2.30 – $18.46 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $25.35 | $1.84 – $40.76 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $276.40 | $1.90 – $39.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $28.80 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $28.80 | $4.76 – $10.22 |