Dx bronchoscope/wash 31622 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

$3,147.40

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.

$3,934.25

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.

$118.02 with Ambetter vs $1,613.04 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
Ambetter HMO $118.02 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $118.02 ↓ -96%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $118.02 ↓ -96%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $118.02 ↓ -96%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $120.38 ↓ -96%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $123.92 ↓ -96%
Humana Medicare Advantage $123.92 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $123.92 ↓ -96%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $240.30 ↓ -92%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $240.30 ↓ -92%
BC Illinois Community PPO $243.77 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $276.41 ↓ -91%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $282.80 ↓ -91%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $315.80 ↓ -90%
Aetna HMO $324.36 ↓ -90%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $375.11 ↓ -88%
Aetna PPO $395.39 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare PPO $416.16 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare HMO $416.16 ↓ -87%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $1,439.94 ↓ -54%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $1,489.33 ↓ -53%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $1,489.33 ↓ -53%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $1,613.04 ↓ -49%

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Dx bronchoscope/wash 31622 at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $578.40 not published
MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center West Des Moines $4,511.00 $906.71 – $4,511.00
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Des Moines $19,408.65 $6.13 – $7,238.26
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center Mason City $18,905.13 $6.65 – $4,240.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $607.20 not published
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt $607.20 $738.76 – $2,679.00
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center Waterloo $5,481.30 $0.96 – $4,235.59
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $3,343.44 $118.02 – $2,202.49

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