Injection arthrography hip without anesthesia (both sides) at UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown
2720 Stone Park Blvd, Sioux City, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1962594622
$1,072.00
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.
$1,340.00
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.
$61.25 with Aetna vs $382.82 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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| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $61.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $62.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $62.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $64.31 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $64.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $64.31 | ↓ -94% |
| Avera Health Plan | Commercial | $91.88 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $130.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $130.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $131.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $153.30 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | HMO | $154.15 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $163.11 | ↓ -85% |
| Nebraska Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $172.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | PPO | $183.61 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $219.93 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $219.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $341.76 | ↓ -68% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $382.82 | ↓ -64% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection arthrography hip without anesthesia (both sides) at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $216.00 | not published |
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $760.50 | $278.46 – $780.00 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $1,171.00 | $156.78 – $780.00 |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $761.15 | $156.78 – $780.00 |
| MercyOne Centerville Medical Center | Centerville | $824.00 | $150.65 – $549.00 |
| MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center | Mason City | $1,077.70 | $282.88 – $1,105.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $249.60 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $249.60 | $94.52 – $202.94 |