Artery x-rays adrenals at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center

802 Kenyon Road, Fort Dodge, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1487759858

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$494.40

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.

$618.00

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.

$56.25 with Aetna vs $2,682.66 with Amerigroup — 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 $56.25 ↓ -89%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $57.38 ↓ -88%
Humana Medicare Advantage $59.06 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $59.06 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare HMO $81.74 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare PPO $81.74 ↓ -83%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $102.80 ↓ -79%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $102.80 ↓ -79%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $119.29 ↓ -76%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $119.60 ↓ -76%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $120.90 ↓ -76%
Aetna HMO $134.03 ↓ -73%
Aetna PPO $155.44 ↓ -69%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $2,682.66 ↑ +443%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $2,682.66 ↑ +443%
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Artery x-rays adrenals at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $2,823.60 $2,447.25 – $3,012.85
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $3,083.40 $3,012.85 – $3,340.35
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $494.40 $56.25 – $2,608.88
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $494.40 $56.25 – $2,767.37
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $494.40 $56.25 – $3,131.65
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $494.40 $56.25 – $3,032.46
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $494.40 $56.25 – $119.60
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $494.40 $56.25 – $3,062.82

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