Thyroid uptake measurement at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine
1518 Mulberry, Muscatine, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1861444333
$363.92
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.
$454.89
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.
$8.07 with Aetna vs $347.04 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.
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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| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $8.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $8.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $8.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $8.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $8.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $8.47 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $8.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $8.47 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $12.11 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $12.11 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $14.80 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $14.80 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $17.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $17.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $19.44 | ↓ -95% |
| BC Illinois Community | PPO | $20.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | HMO | $21.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | PPO | $24.81 | ↓ -93% |
| BC Illinois Community | Blue Choice | $149.86 | ↓ -59% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $166.49 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $186.50 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $347.04 | ↓ -5% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $347.04 | ↓ -5% |
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Thyroid uptake measurement at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $270.60 | $293.15 – $384.64 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $596.70 | $184.52 – $918.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $295.80 | $320.45 – $384.64 |
| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $471.25 | $170.38 – $874.53 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $285.93 | $8.07 – $333.07 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $171.20 | $8.07 – $353.30 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $171.20 | $8.07 – $399.81 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $523.72 | $8.07 – $387.14 |