Design mlc device for imrt 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

$917.60

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.

$1,147.00

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.

$210.68 with Aetna vs $886.95 with BC Illinois Community — 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
Aetna Medicare Advantage $210.68 ↓ -77%
Ambetter HMO $210.68 ↓ -77%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $210.68 ↓ -77%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $210.68 ↓ -77%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $214.89 ↓ -77%
Humana Medicare Advantage $221.21 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $221.21 ↓ -76%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $221.21 ↓ -76%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $241.33 ↓ -74%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $241.33 ↓ -74%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $241.33 ↓ -74%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $289.60 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare PPO $289.86 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare HMO $289.86 ↓ -68%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $316.16 ↓ -66%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $316.16 ↓ -66%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $384.04 ↓ -58%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $430.20 ↓ -53%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $441.27 ↓ -52%
Aetna HMO $481.16 ↓ -48%
BC Illinois Community PPO $521.45 ↓ -43%
Aetna PPO $584.37 ↓ -36%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $886.95 ↓ -3%

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Design mlc device for imrt at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $504.60 $350.41 – $490.57
MercyOne Clinton Medical Center Clinton $1,048.45 $344.79 – $1,613.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $551.40 $350.41 – $490.57
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $917.60 $210.68 – $441.27
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $1,000.27 $210.68 – $1,000.26
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $917.60 $210.68 – $441.27
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $11,577.28 $210.68 – $4,254.65
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $917.60 $210.68 – $441.27

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