Arthrodesis subtalar at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501
$3,864.00
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.
$4,830.00
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.
$705.68 with Aetna vs $12,802.03 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 | $705.68 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $719.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $719.79 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $740.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $740.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $740.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $1,478.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $1,522.90 | ↓ -61% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $1,522.90 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,731.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $1,791.60 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $1,878.40 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,108.25 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $2,414.78 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $2,414.78 | ↓ -38% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $12,802.03 | ↑ +231% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $12,802.03 | ↑ +231% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Arthrodesis subtalar at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $59,707.78 | $9.09 – $34,040.37 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $79,606.97 | $1.92 – $27,814.73 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $1,086.60 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $1,086.60 | $928.00 – $2,679.00 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $120,723.07 | $2.28 – $24,808.12 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $3,864.00 | $705.68 – $10,664.99 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $3,864.00 | $705.68 – $11,312.88 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $3,864.00 | $705.68 – $12,396.56 |