Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$500.22
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.
$1,191.00
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.
$178.05 with Centene vs $1,053.86 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 | $178.05 | ↓ -64% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $332.36 | ↓ -34% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $462.47 | ↓ -8% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $462.47 | ↓ -8% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $471.54 | ↓ -6% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $474.71 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $474.71 | ↓ -5% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $474.71 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $474.71 | ↓ -5% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $474.71 | ↓ -5% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $484.20 | ↓ -3% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $488.95 | ↓ -2% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $498.45 | ↓ -0% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $498.45 | ↓ -0% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $546.02 | ↑ +9% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $712.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $771.55 | ↑ +54% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $842.77 | ↑ +68% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $878.38 | ↑ +76% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $890.25 | ↑ +78% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $890.25 | ↑ +78% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $890.25 | ↑ +78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,008.95 | ↑ +102% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,053.86 | ↑ +111% |
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Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $942.60 | $466.26 – $652.77 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $713.05 | $306.00 – $1,097.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $953.55 | $580.79 – $1,467.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $953.55 | $554.53 – $1,651.26 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $616.85 | $268.57 – $1,101.30 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $953.55 | $560.69 – $1,467.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $877.50 | $317.25 – $1,350.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $953.55 | $755.06 – $1,533.31 |