Artery x-rays arms/legs 75716-26 at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center

210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501

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

$566.40

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.

$708.00

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.

$62.90 with Aetna vs $3,131.65 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.

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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 $62.90 ↓ -89%
Molina Medicare Advantage $64.16 ↓ -89%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $64.16 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $66.05 ↓ -88%
Humana Medicare Advantage $66.05 ↓ -88%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $66.05 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare HMO $94.59 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare PPO $94.59 ↓ -83%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $119.63 ↓ -79%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $122.20 ↓ -78%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $122.20 ↓ -78%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $134.99 ↓ -76%
Aetna HMO $136.70 ↓ -76%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $143.70 ↓ -75%
Aetna PPO $158.14 ↓ -72%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $3,131.65 ↑ +453%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $3,131.65 ↑ +453%
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Artery x-rays arms/legs 75716-26 at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $3,291.60 $3,012.85 – $3,160.95
MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center Dubuque $18,552.49 $2.28 – $7,280.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $3,594.60 $3,012.85 – $3,894.15
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $4,029.72 $62.90 – $2,654.58
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $3,342.69 $62.90 – $3,342.69
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $5,941.96 $62.90 – $3,032.46
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $566.40 $62.90 – $134.99
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $4,029.72 $62.90 – $3,062.82

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