Gated heart multiple at UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital
1825 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1336231091
$1,190.41
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.
$1,488.01
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.
$63.35 with Aetna vs $784.18 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 | $63.35 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $64.62 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $64.62 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $66.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $66.52 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $66.52 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $90.97 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $90.97 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $115.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $115.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $133.41 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $136.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $142.92 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | HMO | $162.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | PPO | $183.61 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $333.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $333.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $700.85 | ↓ -41% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $784.18 | ↓ -34% |
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Gated heart multiple at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | Dubuque | $1,006.85 | $358.66 – $1,549.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $671.20 | $63.35 – $353.30 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $671.20 | $63.35 – $399.81 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $1,903.96 | $63.35 – $699.71 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | $671.20 | $63.35 – $142.92 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $1,190.41 | $63.35 – $714.24 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown | Sioux City | $1,276.51 | $56.42 – $922.27 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf | Bettendorf | $671.20 | $63.35 – $345.78 |