Unlisted orl service/px at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$40.32
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.
$96.00
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.
$14.40 with Centene vs $12,765.09 with Greater Omaha Packing — 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 | $14.40 | ↓ -64% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $23.26 | ↓ -42% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $23.26 | ↓ -42% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $23.71 | ↓ -41% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $23.87 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $23.87 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $23.87 | ↓ -41% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $23.87 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $23.87 | ↓ -41% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $24.35 | ↓ -40% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $24.59 | ↓ -39% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $25.06 | ↓ -38% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $25.06 | ↓ -38% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $26.88 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $44.16 | ↑ +10% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $49.92 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $49.92 | ↑ +24% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $52.99 | ↑ +31% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $57.60 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $68.16 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $72.00 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $81.60 | ↑ +102% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $701.00 | ↑ +1639% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $847.00 | ↑ +2001% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $11,100.08 | ↑ +27430% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $11,100.08 | ↑ +27430% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $11,100.08 | ↑ +27430% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $12,765.09 | ↑ +31559% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $12,765.09 | ↑ +31559% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $12,765.09 | ↑ +31559% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $12,765.09 | ↑ +31559% |
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Unlisted orl service/px at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Mercy Corning | Corning | $61.44 | $55.04 – $125.44 |
| CHI Health Missouri Valley | Missouri Valley | $62.72 | $44.80 – $125.44 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | not published | $23.44 – $32.82 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | not published | $23.44 – $32.82 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | not published | $20.30 – $35.04 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | not published | $21.54 – $44.73 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | not published | $23.31 – $24.37 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | not published | $23.31 – $31.66 |