Injection radioactive tracer sentinel node (both sides) at UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital
350 North Grandview Avenue, Dubuque, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1942392600
$796.58
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.
$995.72
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.
$28.85 with Aetna vs $796.58 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 | $28.85 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $29.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $29.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $30.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $30.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Meridian | MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) | $30.29 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $30.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Medical Associates Health Plan | HMO | $53.37 | ↓ -93% |
| BC Illinois Community | PPO | $58.23 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $59.90 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $59.90 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $70.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $73.24 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $77.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | HMO | $87.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | PPO | $103.19 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $105.34 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $105.34 | ↓ -87% |
| BC Illinois Community | Blue Choice | $119.47 | ↓ -85% |
| Dean Health Plan | HMO | $234.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $353.30 | ↓ -56% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $353.30 | ↓ -56% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $366.42 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $410.24 | ↓ -48% |
| Quartz Health | HMO | $796.58 | ↑ +0% |
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Injection radioactive tracer sentinel node (both sides) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $1,662.05 | $358.66 – $1,705.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $75.00 | not published |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $1,691.00 | $8.74 – $1,127.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $1,400.10 | $367.62 – $1,436.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $78.60 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $78.60 | $95.63 – $2,679.00 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $2,244.45 | $8.74 – $3,576.15 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $408.00 | $28.85 – $333.07 |