Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at CHI Health Missouri Valley
631 North 8th Street, Missouri Valley, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1508964123
$102.41
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.
$209.00
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.
$16.77 with United vs $49.98 with MultiPlan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -84% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $17.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $17.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $17.61 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $21.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Total Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.37 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.37 | ↓ -78% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.81 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|PPO | $29.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|HMO | $29.07 | ↓ -72% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $37.23 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $46.03 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $46.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.41 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.45 | ↓ -53% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $48.96 | ↓ -52% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $49.98 | ↓ -51% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $49.98 | ↓ -51% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $132.60 | $16.77 – $16.77 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $261.30 | $16.25 – $184.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $129.35 | $78.78 – $199.00 |
| MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center | Dyersville | $129.35 | $75.22 – $223.99 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $155.35 | $16.25 – $184.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $129.35 | $76.06 – $199.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $198.90 | $16.25 – $306.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $206.00 | $16.25 – $206.00 |