Tcd emboli detect w/inj 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

$764.80

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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.

$956.00

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.

$43.94 with Nebraska Total Care vs $155.59 with United Healthcare — 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 $43.94 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $53.89 ↓ -93%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $54.97 ↓ -93%
Molina Medicare Advantage $54.97 ↓ -93%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $56.58 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $56.58 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $56.58 ↓ -93%
Avera Health Plan Commercial $80.84 ↓ -89%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $94.18 ↓ -88%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $94.18 ↓ -88%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $106.90 ↓ -86%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $107.80 ↓ -86%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $107.80 ↓ -86%
Aetna HMO $124.65 ↓ -84%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $126.90 ↓ -83%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $142.22 ↓ -81%
Aetna PPO $143.41 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare HMO $155.59 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare PPO $155.59 ↓ -80%
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