Sr-89 stront chlor ther / mci at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$13,815.06
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.
$32,893.00
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.
$3,750.00 with Wellmark vs $27,959.05 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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| Wellmark | Commercial|PPO | $3,750.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|HMO | $3,750.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,040.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $4,040.85 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,040.85 | ↓ -71% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $4,040.85 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $4,040.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $4,121.67 | ↓ -70% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $4,162.08 | ↓ -70% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $4,242.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4,242.89 | ↓ -69% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $4,933.95 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $6,841.46 | ↓ -50% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $8,789.40 | ↓ -36% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $8,970.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $8,977.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,204.08 | ↓ -33% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $9,210.04 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $15,130.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $17,104.36 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $17,104.36 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $19,735.80 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $23,354.03 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $24,669.75 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $27,959.05 | ↑ +102% |
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Sr-89 stront chlor ther / mci at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $767.40 | $831.35 – $4,146.34 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $805.80 | $872.95 – $3,968.96 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | not published | $918.74 – $4,353.65 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | not published | $918.74 – $4,809.75 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | not published | $918.74 – $4,353.65 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | not published | $918.74 – $4,353.65 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | not published | $918.74 – $4,275.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | not published | $918.74 – $4,353.65 |