Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic IV push single/initial substance/drug at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$148.26
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.
$353.00
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.
$52.95 with Centene vs $455.83 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 |
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| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $52.95 | ↓ -64% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $69.55 | ↓ -53% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $70.81 | ↓ -52% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $74.15 | ↓ -50% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $98.84 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $162.38 | ↑ +10% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $183.56 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $183.56 | ↑ +24% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $200.03 | ↑ +35% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $200.03 | ↑ +35% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $203.95 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $205.33 | ↑ +38% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $205.33 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $205.33 | ↑ +38% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $205.33 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $205.33 | ↑ +38% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $209.44 | ↑ +41% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $211.49 | ↑ +43% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $211.80 | ↑ +43% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $215.60 | ↑ +45% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $215.60 | ↑ +45% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $229.45 | ↑ +55% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $250.63 | ↑ +69% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $261.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $264.75 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $300.05 | ↑ +102% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $455.83 | ↑ +207% |
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Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic IV push single/initial substance/drug at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $162.60 | $152.75 – $201.68 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $1,308.77 | $26.00 – $310.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $1,919.50 | $26.00 – $310.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $1,137.00 | $9.09 – $310.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $637.50 | $201.34 – $412.94 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $181.20 | $160.55 – $201.68 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $157.20 | $89.08 – $110.96 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $396.11 | $31.22 – $260.93 |