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Colonoscopy (with biopsy) at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center
802 Kenyon Road, Fort Dodge, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1487759858
$1,047.20
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.
$1,309.00
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.
$179.10 with Aetna vs $1,004.95 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.
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 | $179.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $182.68 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $188.06 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $188.06 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $382.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $382.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $450.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $478.46 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $484.27 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | HMO | $572.30 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $632.60 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $632.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | PPO | $695.60 | ↓ -34% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $1,004.95 | ↓ -4% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $1,004.95 | ↓ -4% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Colonoscopy (with biopsy) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $1,047.20 | $179.10 – $1,135.99 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,047.20 | $179.10 – $977.31 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $321.60 | not published |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $5,294.44 | $3.33 – $2,391.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $9,560.35 | $2.46 – $1,597.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $3,872.86 | $4.05 – $31.45 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $12,645.88 | $56.66 – $2,560.76 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $16,193.60 | $56.66 – $4,235.59 |