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Eeg without vid ea 12-26hr intmt at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501
$1,959.70
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.
$2,449.62
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.
$505.13 with Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield vs $2,351.64 with Aetna — 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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| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $505.13 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $505.13 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $505.13 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $519.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $519.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $519.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $527.93 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $527.93 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $530.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $530.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $530.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $774.08 | ↓ -61% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $881.86 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $987.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $1,528.56 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,783.32 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $1,783.32 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,351.64 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,351.64 | ↑ +20% |
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Eeg without vid ea 12-26hr intmt at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,009.88 | $439.80 – $816.73 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $2,048.72 | $466.52 – $2,048.71 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $2,096.88 | $505.13 – $1,134.93 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $1,009.88 | $441.82 – $1,007.35 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown | Sioux City | $990.36 | $321.87 – $804.67 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf | Bettendorf | $2,156.63 | $456.58 – $1,420.68 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine | Muscatine | $2,156.63 | $458.25 – $1,474.59 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital | Cedar Rapids | $2,119.64 | $466.70 – $1,451.95 |