Whole blood/red blood cells leukocytes reduced cmv negative each unit at UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital
1825 Logan Avenue, Waterloo, IA · UnityPoint Health · · NPI 1336231091
$302.84
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.
$378.55
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.
$49.59 with Aetna vs $469.28 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 | PPO | $49.59 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | HMO | $50.58 | ↓ -83% |
| Iowa Total Care | Managed Medicaid | $142.73 | ↓ -53% |
| Amerigroup | Managed Medicaid | $142.73 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | PPO | $172.20 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | HMO | $172.20 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellmark UPH Self-Funded | Commercial | $172.20 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $175.64 | ↓ -42% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $175.64 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $175.64 | ↓ -42% |
| Medica Exchange Inspire | Commercial | $178.30 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare Advantage | $180.81 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $180.81 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $180.81 | ↓ -40% |
| Medica Exchange Insure | Commercial | $199.50 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna/Midlands | Commercial | $244.92 | ↓ -19% |
| Health Partners Open Network | Commercial | $246.36 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | PPO | $469.28 | ↑ +55% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $469.28 | ↑ +55% |
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| MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center | Waterloo | $576.55 | $142.13 – $887.00 |
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| MercyOne Clinton Medical Center | Clinton | $576.55 | $136.62 – $887.00 |
| MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center | Oelwein | $436.80 | $256.84 – $672.00 |
| MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center | Cedar Falls | $576.55 | $148.55 – $887.00 |
| MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | Elkader | $436.80 | $345.88 – $702.37 |
| MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center | West Des Moines | $887.00 | $140.04 – $887.00 |