Repair blood vessel w/vein graft lower extremity 35256 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

$6,212.80

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.

$7,766.00

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.

$1,103.87 with Ambetter vs $3,882.95 with United Healthcare — 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 $1,103.87 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $1,103.87 ↓ -82%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $1,103.87 ↓ -82%
Health Alliance Medicare Advantage $1,103.87 ↓ -82%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $1,125.95 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare Advantage $1,159.06 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $1,159.06 ↓ -81%
Meridian Health Plan Medicare Advantage $1,159.06 ↓ -81%
BC Illinois Community Blue Choice $1,816.67 ↓ -71%
BC Illinois Community PPO $2,162.70 ↓ -65%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $2,359.99 ↓ -62%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $2,490.20 ↓ -60%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $2,490.20 ↓ -60%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $2,718.31 ↓ -56%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $2,718.31 ↓ -56%
Aetna HMO $2,775.73 ↓ -55%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $2,929.60 ↓ -53%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $2,940.63 ↓ -53%
Aetna PPO $3,377.50 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare HMO $3,882.95 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare PPO $3,882.95 ↓ -38%
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Repair blood vessel w/vein graft lower extremity 35256 at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $2,522.40 not published
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $2,648.40 not published
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt $2,648.40 $928.00 – $3,222.22
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $6,212.80 $1,103.87 – $2,940.63
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $6,212.80 $1,103.87 – $3,572.36
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $6,212.80 $1,103.87 – $3,131.65
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $6,212.80 $1,103.87 – $3,032.46
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $6,212.80 $1,103.87 – $2,940.63

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