Intrvasc Ultrasound noncoronary addl vessel at UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital
1825 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1336231091
$2,367.32
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.
$2,959.15
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.
$61.35 with Aetna vs $1,559.47 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 | $61.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $62.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $62.58 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $64.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $64.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $64.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $128.69 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $138.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $138.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $163.30 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $163.40 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $223.54 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $223.54 | ↓ -91% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $1,393.76 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,479.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,479.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $1,559.47 | ↓ -34% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Intrvasc Ultrasound noncoronary addl vessel at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $2,265.25 | $818.98 – $3,576.15 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center | Davenport | $1,002.60 | not published |
| MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center | Des Moines | $1,171.95 | $39.83 – $1,803.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center | Davenport | $1,158.00 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center | DeWitt | $372.00 | $452.60 – $2,679.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $863.87 | $61.35 – $863.86 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $457.60 | $61.35 – $163.40 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $5,425.18 | $61.35 – $1,993.75 |