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Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital
350 North Grandview Avenue, Dubuque, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1942392600
$2,536.11
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.
$3,170.13
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.
$100.21 with Aetna vs $2,536.10 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.
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 | $100.21 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $102.21 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $102.21 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $105.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $105.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Meridian | MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) | $105.22 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $105.22 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $146.04 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $146.04 | ↓ -94% |
| Medical Associates Health Plan | HMO | $150.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $211.47 | ↓ -92% |
| BC Illinois Community | PPO | $214.47 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $222.47 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $241.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $241.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | HMO | $257.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $283.80 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | PPO | $297.54 | ↓ -88% |
| Dean Health Plan | HMO | $310.96 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $314.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $314.00 | ↓ -88% |
| BC Illinois Community | Blue Choice | $793.96 | ↓ -69% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $1,166.61 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $1,306.09 | ↓ -49% |
| Quartz Health | HMO | $2,536.10 | ↓ -0% |
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Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $4,982.90 | $312.99 – $7,666.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $5,847.04 | $100.21 – $2,148.78 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $2,021.09 | $100.21 – $1,331.39 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $4,357.60 | $321.26 – $6,704.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $3,315.00 | $328.68 – $5,100.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $3,606.85 | $2,856.07 – $5,799.81 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $4,882.15 | $67.10 – $7,511.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $2,745.00 | $341.85 – $478.59 |