X-ray skull < 4 views at CHI Health Missouri Valley
631 North 8th Street, Missouri Valley, IA · Chihealth · · NPI 1508964123
$194.53
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.
$397.00
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.
$25.90 with United vs $72.52 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 | $25.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $25.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $25.90 | ↓ -87% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $25.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $26.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $27.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $27.20 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $31.82 | ↓ -84% |
| Total Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.46 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.46 | ↓ -83% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|PPO | $42.18 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellmark | Commercial|HMO | $42.18 | ↓ -78% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $57.50 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $66.79 | ↓ -66% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $67.34 | ↓ -65% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.34 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $70.30 | ↓ -64% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $71.04 | ↓ -63% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $72.52 | ↓ -63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $72.52 | ↓ -63% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $150.60 | $101.79 – $142.51 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $183.30 | $93.79 – $282.00 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $193.05 | $117.58 – $297.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $272.35 | $96.27 – $419.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $571.00 | $98.68 – $571.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $371.15 | $5.54 – $571.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $297.00 | $81.50 – $297.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $193.05 | $98.96 – $297.00 |