App high cost ss t/a/l <100sq cm addl <25sq cm at UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital

350 North Grandview Avenue, Dubuque, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1942392600

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$350.11

Cash price

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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.

$437.63

Gross charge

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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.

$15.10 with Aetna vs $350.10 with Quartz Health — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare Advantage $15.10 ↓ -96%
Molina Medicare Advantage $15.40 ↓ -96%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $15.40 ↓ -96%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $15.86 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $15.86 ↓ -95%
Humana Medicare Advantage $15.86 ↓ -95%
Meridian MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) $15.86 ↓ -95%
Medical Associates Health Plan HMO $27.94 ↓ -92%
BC Illinois Community PPO $29.31 ↓ -92%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $29.60 ↓ -92%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $29.60 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $34.31 ↓ -90%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $34.90 ↓ -90%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $35.22 ↓ -90%
Aetna HMO $38.87 ↓ -89%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $40.12 ↓ -89%
Aetna PPO $46.90 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare HMO $54.56 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare PPO $54.56 ↓ -84%
Dean Health Plan HMO $74.52 ↓ -79%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $161.05 ↓ -54%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $180.30 ↓ -49%
Quartz Health HMO $350.10 ↓ -0%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid not published by hospital
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid not published by hospital

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App high cost ss t/a/l <100sq cm addl <25sq cm at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $179.40 not published
MercyOne Clinton Medical Center Clinton $641.55 $279.32 – $987.00
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Des Moines $1,351.35 $9.37 – $2,079.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $207.60 not published
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center Waterloo $163.80 $59.22 – $3,576.15
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $1,360.40 $15.10 – $896.16
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $64.80 $15.10 – $40.12
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $1,638.91 $15.10 – $602.30

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