Augmentation cheek bone at UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital

1825 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1336231091

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

$4,988.80

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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.

$6,236.00

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.

$672.42 with Aetna vs $4,903.34 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.

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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
Aetna Medicare Advantage $672.42 ↓ -87%
Molina Medicare Advantage $685.87 ↓ -86%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $685.87 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $706.04 ↓ -86%
Humana Medicare Advantage $706.04 ↓ -86%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $706.04 ↓ -86%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $1,343.17 ↓ -73%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $1,458.70 ↓ -71%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $1,458.70 ↓ -71%
Aetna HMO $1,636.40 ↓ -67%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $1,716.10 ↓ -66%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $1,784.43 ↓ -64%
Aetna PPO $1,952.79 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare PPO $2,328.13 ↓ -53%
United Healthcare HMO $2,328.13 ↓ -53%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $4,903.34 ↓ -2%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $4,903.34 ↓ -2%
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Augmentation cheek bone at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $4,988.80 $672.42 – $5,201.22
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell $4,988.80 $672.42 – $5,885.87
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines $4,988.80 $672.42 – $5,699.45
UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center Anamosa $4,988.80 $672.42 – $1,784.43
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Marshalltown $4,988.80 $672.42 – $5,756.50
UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown Sioux City $4,988.80 $672.42 – $5,239.04
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Bettendorf $4,988.80 $672.42 – $5,090.43
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine Muscatine $4,988.80 $672.42 – $5,109.01

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