Demonstration/evaluation utilization aersol generator/nebulizer/metered dose inhaler/ippb device at UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown
2720 Stone Park Blvd, Sioux City, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1962594622
$81.79
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.
$102.23
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.
$11.44 with Nebraska Total Care vs $180.13 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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| Nebraska Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $11.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $15.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $15.96 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $15.96 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $16.43 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $16.43 | ↓ -80% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $16.43 | ↓ -80% |
| Avera Health Plan | Commercial | $23.48 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $30.66 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $34.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $34.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | HMO | $37.52 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $40.10 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $40.25 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $40.25 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $41.18 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | PPO | $45.56 | ↓ -44% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $52.75 | ↓ -36% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $59.09 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $180.13 | ↑ +120% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $180.13 | ↑ +120% |
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| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $240.50 | $207.27 – $425.12 |