Transperi needle place pros at UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine
1518 Mulberry, Muscatine, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1861444333
$5,842.01
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.
$7,302.51
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.
$713.75 with Health Alliance vs $4,390.42 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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| Health Alliance | Medicare Advantage | $713.75 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $713.75 | ↓ -88% |
| Ambetter | HMO | $713.75 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $713.75 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $728.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Meridian Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $749.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $749.44 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $749.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $1,442.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $1,487.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $1,487.20 | ↓ -75% |
| BC Illinois Community | Blue Choice | $1,570.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $1,679.58 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,690.09 | ↓ -71% |
| BC Illinois Community | PPO | $1,870.06 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $1,891.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,056.01 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $2,433.76 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $2,433.76 | ↓ -58% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $2,672.72 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $2,994.03 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $4,390.42 | ↓ -25% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $4,390.42 | ↓ -25% |
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Transperi needle place pros at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $1,947.20 | $713.75 – $4,213.69 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $1,947.20 | $713.75 – $4,469.67 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $1,947.20 | $713.75 – $5,058.02 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $6,928.63 | $713.75 – $4,897.82 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | $1,947.20 | $713.75 – $1,891.33 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $1,947.20 | $713.75 – $4,946.85 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown | Sioux City | $1,947.20 | $632.84 – $4,502.17 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf | Bettendorf | $5,842.01 | $713.75 – $4,374.46 |