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Abdominal CT scan (without contrast) at UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown
2720 Stone Park Blvd, Sioux City, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1962594622
$1,193.39
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.
$1,491.73
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.
$47.06 with Nebraska Total Care vs $862.22 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.
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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| Nebraska Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $47.06 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $51.93 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $52.97 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $52.97 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $54.53 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $54.53 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $54.53 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $75.88 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $75.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Avera Health Plan | Commercial | $77.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $94.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $94.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $107.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $107.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $110.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $115.25 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $126.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | HMO | $134.03 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | PPO | $154.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $769.73 | ↓ -36% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $862.22 | ↓ -28% |
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Abdominal CT scan (without contrast) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $2,224.56 | $51.93 – $817.52 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $962.42 | $51.93 – $633.99 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $958.80 | $101.79 – $142.51 |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $1,104.35 | $93.79 – $1,699.00 |
| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $2,001.35 | $96.27 – $3,079.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $1,290.90 | $759.05 – $1,986.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $865.80 | $98.49 – $1,332.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $3,184.00 | $98.68 – $3,184.00 |