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CT Angiogram of the Head at UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown
55 UnityPoint Way, Marshalltown, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1629503057
$1,341.79
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.
$1,677.23
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.
$76.39 with Aetna vs $805.07 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 | $76.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $77.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $77.92 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $80.21 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $80.21 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $80.21 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $111.31 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $111.31 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $157.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $157.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $161.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $170.26 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $173.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $173.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $185.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | HMO | $198.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | PPO | $198.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $719.53 | ↓ -46% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $805.07 | ↓ -40% |
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CT Angiogram of the Head at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $3,234.49 | $76.39 – $1,188.67 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,341.79 | $76.39 – $883.90 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $5,294.57 | $161.52 – $3,812.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $2,528.50 | $2,002.18 – $4,065.83 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $2,465.45 | $51.12 – $3,793.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $1,474.20 | $170.40 – $238.57 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $2,692.30 | $157.36 – $4,142.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $2,528.50 | $1,470.42 – $4,378.58 |