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Neck MRA (blood vessel MRI, with and without contrast) at UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
210 Fourth Ave, Grinnell, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1669420501
$3,794.19
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.
$4,742.73
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.
$78.60 with Aetna vs $1,911.32 with Medica Exchange Insure — 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 | $78.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $80.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $80.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $82.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $82.53 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $82.53 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $114.95 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $114.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $166.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $174.17 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $188.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $188.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | HMO | $203.71 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $221.60 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | PPO | $234.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $355.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $355.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $1,707.38 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $1,911.32 | ↓ -50% |
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Neck MRA (blood vessel MRI, with and without contrast) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $3,792.99 | $78.60 – $1,393.92 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $2,389.24 | $78.60 – $1,573.91 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $2,679.30 | $321.26 – $4,122.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $3,547.70 | $2,809.23 – $5,704.70 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $3,695.25 | $52.61 – $5,685.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $2,330.40 | $341.85 – $478.59 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $3,019.25 | $312.99 – $4,645.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $3,547.70 | $2,160.82 – $5,458.00 |