Interrog dev eval icpms ip at UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown

2720 Stone Park Blvd, Sioux City, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1962594622

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 28, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$150.61

Cash price

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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.

$188.26

Gross charge

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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.

$16.12 with Nebraska Total Care vs $108.81 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Nebraska Total Care Managed Medicaid $16.12 ↓ -89%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $18.11 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $18.93 ↓ -87%
Molina Medicare Advantage $19.31 ↓ -87%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $19.31 ↓ -87%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $19.88 ↓ -87%
Humana Medicare Advantage $19.88 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $19.88 ↓ -87%
Aetna HMO $20.79 ↓ -86%
Aetna PPO $24.81 ↓ -84%
Avera Health Plan Commercial $28.40 ↓ -81%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $33.03 ↓ -78%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $33.03 ↓ -78%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $40.70 ↓ -73%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $40.70 ↓ -73%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $47.90 ↓ -68%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $49.82 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare PPO $56.61 ↓ -62%
United Healthcare HMO $56.61 ↓ -62%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $97.14 ↓ -36%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $108.81 ↓ -28%

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Des Moines $95.55 $29.55 – $147.00
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center Waterloo $160.00 $12.99 – $87.33
UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital Waterloo $108.80 $18.11 – $65.93
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $108.80 $18.11 – $81.03
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $108.80 $18.11 – $49.82
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $108.80 $18.11 – $49.82
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