Low cost skin substitute app at UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital
1825 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1336231091
$1,407.70
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.
$1,759.62
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.
$575.67 with Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield vs $1,668.15 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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| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $575.67 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $575.67 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $575.67 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $592.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $592.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $592.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $828.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $875.74 | ↓ -38% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $927.32 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $1,138.47 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,359.23 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,414.15 | ↑ +0% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,668.15 | ↑ +19% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $1,668.15 | ↑ +19% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Low cost skin substitute app at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $1,996.48 | $582.75 – $1,080.59 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $1,407.70 | $575.67 – $1,404.18 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown | Sioux City | $1,208.58 | $392.79 – $981.97 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf | Bettendorf | $1,383.84 | $575.67 – $911.60 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Muscatine | Muscatine | $1,383.84 | $397.85 – $946.20 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center | Fort Dodge | $1,103.34 | $575.67 – $1,172.29 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital | Cedar Rapids | $1,687.84 | $578.86 – $1,156.16 |
| CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs | Council Bluffs | $363.72 | $129.90 – $736.10 |