Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs
800 Mercy Drive, Council Bluffs, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1265517759
$160.86
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.
$383.00
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.
$13.12 with Amerigroup vs $325.55 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 | $13.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $13.12 | ↓ -92% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.37 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13.54 | ↓ -92% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $13.54 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.54 | ↓ -92% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $13.54 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $13.54 | ↓ -92% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $13.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $13.95 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $14.22 | ↓ -91% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $14.22 | ↓ -91% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $25.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $27.84 | ↓ -83% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.15 | ↓ -82% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $30.06 | ↓ -81% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $43.66 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $56.96 | ↓ -65% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $57.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $92.70 | ↓ -42% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $92.70 | ↓ -42% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $92.70 | ↓ -42% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $106.61 | ↓ -34% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $106.61 | ↓ -34% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $106.61 | ↓ -34% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $106.61 | ↓ -34% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $107.24 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $176.18 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $199.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $199.16 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $229.80 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $271.93 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $287.25 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $325.55 | ↑ +102% |
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Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $135.60 | $13.54 – $13.54 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $157.95 | $13.12 – $243.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $159.90 | $97.39 – $246.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $159.90 | $92.99 – $276.90 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $191.10 | $13.12 – $294.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $159.90 | $94.02 – $246.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $104.00 | $13.12 – $160.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $159.90 | $126.62 – $257.12 |