Urea nitrogen at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$39.90
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.
$95.00
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.
$3.83 with Amerigroup vs $73.95 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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| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.83 | ↓ -90% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $3.83 | ↓ -90% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -90% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $4.03 | ↓ -90% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $4.07 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4.15 | ↓ -90% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $4.15 | ↓ -90% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $7.56 | ↓ -81% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $8.12 | ↓ -80% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.50 | ↓ -79% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -78% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $12.74 | ↓ -68% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $13.05 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $16.62 | ↓ -58% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $24.36 | ↓ -39% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $27.00 | ↓ -32% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $27.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $27.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $31.05 | ↓ -22% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $31.05 | ↓ -22% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $31.05 | ↓ -22% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $31.05 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $40.02 | ↑ +0% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $45.24 | ↑ +13% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $45.24 | ↑ +13% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $52.20 | ↑ +31% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $61.77 | ↑ +55% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $65.25 | ↑ +64% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $73.95 | ↑ +85% |
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Urea nitrogen at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $34.20 | $3.95 – $3.95 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $42.25 | $25.73 – $65.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $42.25 | $24.57 – $73.16 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $29.25 | $3.83 – $45.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $242.00 | $3.87 – $65.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $29.25 | $3.83 – $45.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $42.25 | $33.46 – $67.94 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $113.00 | $3.83 – $113.00 |