Evasc prlng admn rx agnt 1st at UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital
1825 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1336231091
$1,196.11
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.
$1,495.13
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.
$500.27 with Aetna vs $1,721.53 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.
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 | $500.27 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $510.28 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $510.28 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $525.28 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $525.28 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $525.28 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $554.69 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $704.21 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | HMO | $747.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | PPO | $747.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $787.93 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $967.35 | ↓ -19% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $1,130.10 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $1,130.10 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $1,329.60 | ↑ +11% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $1,721.53 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,721.53 | ↑ +44% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Evasc prlng admn rx agnt 1st at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $1,196.11 | $500.27 – $1,193.11 |
| CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs | Council Bluffs | $15,856.26 | $484.04 – $3,004.75 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | not published | $500.27 – $1,329.35 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | not published | $500.27 – $1,329.35 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | not published | $500.27 – $1,329.35 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | not published | $500.27 – $1,329.35 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown | Sioux City | not published | $500.27 – $1,329.35 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf | Bettendorf | not published | $500.27 – $1,329.35 |