Red blood cells leukocytes reduced each unit at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$334.32
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.
$796.00
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.
$119.10 with Centene vs $674.90 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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| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $119.10 | ↓ -64% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $172.80 | ↓ -48% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $172.80 | ↓ -48% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $176.19 | ↓ -47% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $177.37 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $177.37 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $177.37 | ↓ -47% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $177.37 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $177.37 | ↓ -47% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $180.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $182.69 | ↓ -45% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $186.24 | ↓ -44% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $186.24 | ↓ -44% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $222.32 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $365.24 | ↑ +9% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $393.76 | ↑ +18% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $476.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $516.10 | ↑ +54% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $563.74 | ↑ +69% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $587.56 | ↑ +76% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $595.50 | ↑ +78% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $595.50 | ↑ +78% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $595.50 | ↑ +78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $674.90 | ↑ +102% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $342.60 | $174.21 – $243.90 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $2,100.86 | $0.71 – $594.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $1,673.75 | $2.28 – $654.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $425.10 | $247.21 – $736.14 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $256.10 | $111.50 – $398.06 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $425.10 | $249.96 – $654.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $2,779.00 | $9.09 – $593.67 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $2,855.10 | $1.42 – $683.56 |