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X-ray nose to rectum for foreign body child at UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital
350 North Grandview Avenue, Dubuque, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1942392600
$168.97
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.
$211.21
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.
$8.04 with Aetna vs $168.97 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 | $8.04 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $8.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $8.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Meridian | MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid) | $8.44 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $8.44 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.44 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $8.44 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $11.64 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $11.64 | ↓ -93% |
| Medical Associates Health Plan | HMO | $12.06 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $14.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $14.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $16.46 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $17.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $17.73 | ↓ -90% |
| BC Illinois Community | PPO | $19.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | HMO | $20.79 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | PPO | $23.47 | ↓ -86% |
| Dean Health Plan | HMO | $25.76 | ↓ -85% |
| BC Illinois Community | Blue Choice | $55.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $77.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $77.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $77.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $87.02 | ↓ -48% |
| Quartz Health | HMO | $168.97 | ↑ +0% |
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X-ray nose to rectum for foreign body child at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $317.20 | $78.07 – $488.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $152.40 | $84.28 – $118.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $518.05 | $80.14 – $797.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $183.30 | $107.78 – $282.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $183.30 | $82.37 – $282.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $488.15 | $84.21 – $751.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $166.80 | $84.28 – $118.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $166.80 | $47.45 – $94.52 |