Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s) and/or steroid other peripheral nerve/branch (both sides) at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501
$855.57
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.
$1,069.46
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.
$37.70 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 | $37.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $38.45 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $38.45 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $39.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $39.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $39.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $79.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $79.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $93.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $97.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $101.12 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | HMO | $101.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | PPO | $123.30 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $134.15 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $134.15 | ↓ -84% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $385.01 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $430.99 | ↓ -50% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $689.04 | ↓ -19% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $689.04 | ↓ -19% |
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