X-ray small bowel multi serial images abdominal radiographs(s)&delayed images single contrast study at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center
802 Kenyon Road, Fort Dodge, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1487759858
$387.90
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.
$484.87
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.
$35.36 with Aetna vs $412.14 with Medica Exchange Inspire — 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 | $35.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $36.07 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $37.13 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $37.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $45.72 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $51.86 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $51.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | HMO | $53.61 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | PPO | $61.66 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $65.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $65.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $74.53 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $76.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $151.73 | ↓ -61% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $151.73 | ↓ -61% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $224.49 | ↓ -42% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $412.14 | ↑ +6% |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $322.80 | $170.40 – $238.57 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $574.60 | $157.36 – $884.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $532.35 | $161.52 – $819.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $324.35 | $117.27 – $499.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $1,011.00 | $165.56 – $1,011.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $657.15 | $165.56 – $1,011.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $585.00 | $160.52 – $585.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $365.95 | $144.13 – $563.00 |