Ghs layer closure 7.6 - 12.5 cm - 12044 at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501
$1,028.10
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.
$1,285.12
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.
$193.56 with Aetna vs $665.16 with United Healthcare — 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 | $193.56 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $197.43 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $197.43 | ↓ -81% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $203.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $203.24 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $203.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $384.80 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $384.80 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $395.90 | ↓ -61% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $452.70 | ↓ -56% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $462.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | HMO | $477.14 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $514.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $517.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | PPO | $581.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $609.05 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $609.05 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $665.16 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $665.16 | ↓ -35% |
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Ghs layer closure 7.6 - 12.5 cm - 12044 at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $637.20 | $373.10 – $585.94 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $3,778.00 | $31.45 – $1,601.18 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $902.40 | $450.45 – $585.94 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $669.00 | $235.62 – $505.89 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $911.20 | $193.56 – $507.38 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $911.20 | $126.74 – $538.20 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $911.20 | $193.56 – $589.75 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | $911.20 | $151.30 – $369.70 |