Drainage of eye 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

$595.20

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.

$744.00

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.

$80.65 with Aetna vs $2,005.28 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.

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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 $80.65 ↓ -86%
Molina Medicare Advantage $82.26 ↓ -86%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $82.26 ↓ -86%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $84.68 ↓ -86%
Humana Medicare Advantage $84.68 ↓ -86%
Meridian MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) $84.68 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $84.68 ↓ -86%
Medical Associates Health Plan HMO $149.20 ↓ -75%
BC Illinois Community PPO $159.98 ↓ -73%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $167.10 ↓ -72%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $167.10 ↓ -72%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $178.40 ↓ -70%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $185.31 ↓ -69%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $196.60 ↓ -67%
Aetna HMO $201.04 ↓ -66%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $215.15 ↓ -64%
Aetna PPO $243.92 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare HMO $285.39 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare PPO $285.39 ↓ -52%
Dean Health Plan HMO $342.24 ↓ -43%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $2,005.28 ↑ +237%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $2,005.28 ↑ +237%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial not published by hospital
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial not published by hospital
Quartz Health HMO not published by hospital

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Drainage of eye at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $595.20 $80.65 – $1,890.44
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $595.20 $80.65 – $2,269.24
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $5,027.33 $80.65 – $2,197.37
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $595.20 $80.65 – $215.15
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $595.20 $80.65 – $2,219.37
UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown Sioux City $595.20 $80.65 – $2,019.86
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Bettendorf $5,027.33 $80.65 – $2,463.39
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine Muscatine $5,027.33 $80.65 – $2,576.51

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