Spirometry bronchodilation responsiveness pre/post bronchodilator administration at UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital
1200 Pleasant St, Des Moines, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1356433049
$720.66
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.
$900.82
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.
$9.33 with Aetna vs $300.01 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 | $9.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $9.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $9.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $9.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $9.80 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $9.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $18.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $18.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $22.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $24.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $24.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | HMO | $28.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | PPO | $33.50 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $33.99 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $33.99 | ↓ -95% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $236.01 | ↓ -67% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $264.84 | ↓ -63% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $300.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $300.01 | ↓ -58% |
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Spirometry bronchodilation responsiveness pre/post bronchodilator administration at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $421.85 | $6.60 – $724.45 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $398.40 | $147.55 – $298.08 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $1,017.90 | $195.00 – $745.60 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $453.05 | $275.94 – $697.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $453.05 | $266.39 – $697.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $491.40 | $177.66 – $791.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $453.05 | $358.75 – $728.50 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $697.00 | $6.60 – $697.00 |