Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown
2720 Stone Park Blvd, Sioux City, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1962594622
$115.72
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.
$144.65
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.
$9.62 with Nebraska Total Care vs $83.61 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 | $9.62 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $10.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $10.95 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $10.95 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $11.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $11.28 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $11.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Avera Health Plan | Commercial | $16.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $22.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $22.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $26.70 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $29.04 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $29.50 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $33.27 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $33.27 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | HMO | $33.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | PPO | $40.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $40.86 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $40.86 | ↓ -65% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $74.64 | ↓ -35% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $83.61 | ↓ -28% |
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Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $54.00 | $44.17 – $58.50 |
| MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center | New Hampton | $846.30 | $4.56 – $152.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $541.00 | $2.28 – $158.87 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $1,242.00 | $2.28 – $152.00 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | Newton | $637.00 | $0.36 – $152.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $60.00 | $44.17 – $61.75 |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $60.00 | $30.60 – $30.66 |
| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $87.80 | $10.74 – $57.84 |