Radiation treatment delivery 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

$573.52

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.

$716.90

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.

$94.57 with Iowa Total Care vs $293.93 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
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $94.57 ↓ -84%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $94.57 ↓ -84%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $100.96 ↓ -82%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $102.98 ↓ -82%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $102.98 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $102.98 ↓ -82%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $106.01 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare Advantage $106.01 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $106.01 ↓ -82%
Ambetter HMO $161.53 ↓ -72%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $164.89 ↓ -71%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $164.89 ↓ -71%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $164.89 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare HMO $169.42 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare PPO $169.42 ↓ -70%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $197.86 ↓ -66%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $237.62 ↓ -59%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $237.64 ↓ -59%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $262.39 ↓ -54%
Aetna HMO $268.93 ↓ -53%
BC Illinois Community PPO $282.90 ↓ -51%
Aetna PPO $283.67 ↓ -51%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $293.93 ↓ -49%

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Radiation treatment delivery at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $281.40 $104.82 – $146.74
MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center Dubuque $1,670.50 $91.54 – $2,570.00
MercyOne Clinton Medical Center Clinton $1,799.20 $93.96 – $2,768.00
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Des Moines $2,277.60 $96.31 – $3,504.00
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center Mason City $2,027.35 $98.72 – $3,119.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $307.80 $104.82 – $146.74
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center Waterloo $3,193.45 $96.12 – $4,913.00
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $404.65 $96.28 – $404.65

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