Contrast x-ray of elbow at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine
1518 Mulberry, Muscatine, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1861444333
$502.69
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.
$628.36
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.
$23.82 with Aetna vs $308.43 with Iowa Total Care — 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 | $23.82 | ↓ -95% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $23.82 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $23.82 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $23.82 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $24.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $25.01 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $25.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $25.01 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $36.61 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $36.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $44.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $44.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $50.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $51.70 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $51.92 | ↓ -90% |
| BC Illinois Community | PPO | $54.74 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | HMO | $60.31 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | PPO | $69.70 | ↓ -86% |
| BC Illinois Community | Blue Choice | $170.73 | ↓ -66% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $229.98 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $257.63 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $308.43 | ↓ -39% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $308.43 | ↓ -39% |
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Contrast x-ray of elbow at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $390.00 | $341.85 – $478.59 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $426.00 | $341.85 – $478.59 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $387.78 | $23.82 – $296.02 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $805.47 | $23.82 – $805.46 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $628.48 | $23.82 – $355.33 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $854.13 | $23.82 – $344.08 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | $211.20 | $23.82 – $51.92 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $387.78 | $23.82 – $347.52 |