Debride nail1-5 11720 at UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital
1200 Pleasant St, Des Moines, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1356433049
$109.13
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.
$136.41
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.
$13.16 with Aetna vs $57.22 with Iowa Total Care — 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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| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $13.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $13.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $13.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $13.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $13.82 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $13.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $25.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $25.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $28.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $30.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | HMO | $32.16 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $34.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $35.74 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | PPO | $38.87 | ↓ -64% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $40.10 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $46.55 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $46.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $57.22 | ↓ -48% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $57.22 | ↓ -48% |
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Debride nail1-5 11720 at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $58.20 | not published |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $61.00 | $8.09 – $126.24 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $739.00 | $4.05 – $60.52 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $345.00 | $25.60 – $127.81 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $61.20 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $61.20 | $74.46 – $2,679.00 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $607.00 | $8.09 – $3,576.15 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $245.89 | $13.16 – $161.98 |