Bone marrow imaging mult at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine

1518 Mulberry, Muscatine, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1861444333

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$790.92

Cash price

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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.

$988.64

Gross charge

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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.

$27.95 with Health Alliance vs $405.34 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $27.95 ↓ -96%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $27.95 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $27.95 ↓ -96%
Ambetter HMO $27.95 ↓ -96%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $28.51 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $29.35 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $29.35 ↓ -96%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $29.35 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare PPO $45.02 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare HMO $45.02 ↓ -94%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $50.20 ↓ -94%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $50.20 ↓ -94%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $59.10 ↓ -93%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $59.43 ↓ -92%
BC Illinois Community PPO $69.19 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $70.77 ↓ -91%
Aetna HMO $79.09 ↓ -90%
Aetna PPO $91.14 ↓ -88%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $317.33 ↓ -60%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $347.04 ↓ -56%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $347.04 ↓ -56%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $361.84 ↓ -54%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $405.34 ↓ -49%

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Bone marrow imaging mult at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $765.70 $27.95 – $504.40
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $487.20 $27.95 – $353.30
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $487.20 $27.95 – $399.81
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $880.91 $27.95 – $387.14
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $487.20 $27.95 – $70.77
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $765.70 $27.95 – $459.42
UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown Sioux City $891.16 $25.74 – $643.86
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Bettendorf $790.92 $27.95 – $387.55

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