Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501
$4,751.26
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.
$5,939.07
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.
$181.15 with Aetna vs $3,511.29 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 | $181.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $184.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $184.77 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $190.21 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $190.21 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $190.21 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $371.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $371.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $426.51 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $436.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $483.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | HMO | $499.92 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | PPO | $608.48 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $648.91 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $648.91 | ↓ -86% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $2,138.07 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $2,393.45 | ↓ -50% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $3,511.29 | ↓ -26% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $3,511.29 | ↓ -26% |
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Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $3,913.80 | $3,378.09 – $4,239.95 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $11,750.97 | $3.87 – $7,153.96 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $602.55 | $167.97 – $927.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $1,320.00 | $18.51 – $68.64 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $6,837.00 | $1,374.24 – $6,951.03 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $11,699.64 | $9.09 – $6,951.03 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $5,615.35 | $2,211.58 – $8,639.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $4,520.40 | $3,378.09 – $4,729.32 |