Drainage of nose lesion sept 30020 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

$621.60

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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.

$777.00

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.

$110.93 with Ambetter vs $439.81 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.

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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
Ambetter HMO $110.93 ↓ -82%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $110.93 ↓ -82%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $110.93 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $110.93 ↓ -82%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $113.15 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $116.48 ↓ -81%
Humana Medicare Advantage $116.48 ↓ -81%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $116.48 ↓ -81%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $221.60 ↓ -64%
BC Illinois Community PPO $225.21 ↓ -64%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $229.20 ↓ -63%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $229.20 ↓ -63%
Aetna HMO $264.04 ↓ -58%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $269.70 ↓ -57%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $297.17 ↓ -52%
Aetna PPO $321.69 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare PPO $365.99 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare HMO $365.99 ↓ -41%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $399.49 ↓ -36%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $439.81 ↓ -29%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $439.81 ↓ -29%
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Drainage of nose lesion sept 30020 at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $427.20 not published
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $448.80 not published
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt $448.80 $546.04 – $2,679.00
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $621.60 $110.93 – $422.11
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $621.60 $110.93 – $714.84
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $621.60 $110.93 – $506.69
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $742.00 $110.93 – $490.64
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $621.60 $110.93 – $297.17

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