Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s) and/or steroid femoral nerve left at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501
$1,210.09
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.
$1,512.61
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.
$57.96 with Aetna vs $689.04 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 | $57.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $59.12 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $59.12 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $60.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $60.86 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $60.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $121.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $121.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $127.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $143.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | HMO | $146.08 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $153.91 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $169.96 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $169.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | PPO | $178.26 | ↓ -85% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $544.54 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $609.58 | ↓ -50% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $689.04 | ↓ -43% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $689.04 | ↓ -43% |
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Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s) and/or steroid femoral nerve left at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $712.20 | $662.89 – $771.55 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $1,192.75 | $245.82 – $1,370.41 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $770.00 | $19.23 – $513.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $238.00 | $19.23 – $200.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $823.20 | $662.89 – $891.80 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $241.20 | $293.46 – $2,679.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,815.62 | $54.36 – $574.01 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $2,576.40 | $57.96 – $1,288.20 |