Radiation treatment delivery at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine
1518 Mulberry, Muscatine, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1861444333
$1,099.50
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.
$1,374.37
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.
$227.12 with Amerigroup vs $633.95 with Aetna — 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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| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $227.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $227.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $242.47 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $247.32 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $247.32 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $247.32 | ↓ -78% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $254.59 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $254.59 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $254.59 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $311.37 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $311.37 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $316.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $316.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $316.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $321.41 | ↓ -71% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $387.95 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $431.93 | ↓ -61% |
| BC Illinois Community | Blue Choice | $444.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $503.02 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | HMO | $520.04 | ↓ -53% |
| BC Illinois Community | PPO | $528.58 | ↓ -52% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $563.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | PPO | $633.95 | ↓ -42% |
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Radiation treatment delivery at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $480.60 | $251.73 – $352.42 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $1,837.55 | $495.71 – $2,827.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $1,977.95 | $508.81 – $3,043.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $2,228.20 | $534.63 – $3,428.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $555.60 | $251.73 – $352.42 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $3,385.85 | $520.56 – $5,209.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $738.37 | $231.22 – $738.37 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $873.04 | $250.36 – $431.93 |