Liver elastography 91200 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

$470.83

Cash price

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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.

$588.53

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.

$9.60 with Aetna vs $310.16 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.

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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 $9.60 ↓ -98%
Molina Medicare Advantage $9.79 ↓ -98%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $9.79 ↓ -98%
Amerivantage Medicare Advantage $10.08 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare Advantage $10.08 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $10.08 ↓ -98%
Wellmark UPH Self-Funded Commercial $19.50 ↓ -96%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO $19.50 ↓ -96%
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO $23.00 ↓ -95%
Cigna/Midlands Commercial $25.27 ↓ -95%
Health Partners Open Network Commercial $25.99 ↓ -94%
Aetna HMO $31.45 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare PPO $36.61 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare HMO $36.61 ↓ -92%
Aetna PPO $37.52 ↓ -92%
Amerigroup Managed Medicaid $129.68 ↓ -72%
Iowa Total Care Managed Medicaid $129.68 ↓ -72%
Medica Exchange Inspire Commercial $277.20 ↓ -41%
Medica Exchange Insure Commercial $310.16 ↓ -34%

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Liver elastography 91200 at other Iowa hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport $45.00 not published
MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center Cedar Falls $319.15 $115.39 – $491.00
MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center West Des Moines $510.00 $102.51 – $510.00
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Des Moines $331.50 $102.51 – $510.00
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center Mason City $338.00 $124.51 – $520.00
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport $47.40 not published
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt $47.40 $57.67 – $2,679.00
UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital Dubuque $80.80 $9.60 – $137.56

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