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Ghs strapping shoulder - 29240 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

$155.20

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.

$194.00

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.

$16.60 with Aetna vs $128.22 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 $16.60 ↓ -89%
Molina Medicare Advantage $16.93 ↓ -89%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $16.93 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $17.43 ↓ -89%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $17.43 ↓ -89%
Humana Medicare Advantage $17.43 ↓ -89%
Meridian MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) $17.43 ↓ -89%
Medical Associates Health Plan HMO $30.71 ↓ -80%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $34.00 ↓ -78%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $34.00 ↓ -78%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $34.87 ↓ -78%
BC Illinois Community PPO $38.52 ↓ -75%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $40.00 ↓ -74%
Aetna HMO $41.55 ↓ -73%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $44.15 ↓ -72%
Aetna PPO $49.59 ↓ -68%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $52.51 ↓ -66%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $58.98 ↓ -62%
United Healthcare PPO $60.68 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare HMO $60.68 ↓ -61%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $66.03 ↓ -57%
Dean Health Plan HMO $89.24 ↓ -43%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $113.34 ↓ -27%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $113.34 ↓ -27%
Quartz Health HMO $128.22 ↓ -17%

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Ghs strapping shoulder - 29240 at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $129.00 $123.39 – $139.75
MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center West Des Moines $347.00 $46.43 – $231.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $156.00 $123.39 – $169.00
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt $156.00 $88.40 – $189.80
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $275.44 $16.60 – $181.45
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $199.37 $16.60 – $128.25
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $301.21 $16.60 – $124.19
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $222.28 $16.60 – $246.45

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