Biliary endoscopy thru skin at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$488.00
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.
$800.00
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.
$168.00 with United vs $21,882.83 with AMPS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $168.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $169.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $392.00 | ↓ -20% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $464.00 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $608.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $624.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $624.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $697.31 | ↑ +43% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $736.00 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $744.00 | ↑ +52% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $8,479.45 | ↑ +1638% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $8,479.45 | ↑ +1638% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $8,645.72 | ↑ +1672% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $9,640.26 | ↑ +1875% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $9,640.26 | ↑ +1875% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $9,640.26 | ↑ +1875% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9,857.13 | ↑ +1920% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $9,857.13 | ↑ +1920% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $9,857.13 | ↑ +1920% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9,857.13 | ↑ +1920% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $9,857.13 | ↑ +1920% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $10,152.84 | ↑ +1981% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $10,349.99 | ↑ +2021% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $10,349.99 | ↑ +2021% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $11,086.30 | ↑ +2172% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $11,086.30 | ↑ +2172% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $11,086.30 | ↑ +2172% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $11,086.30 | ↑ +2172% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $13,584.00 | ↑ +2684% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,961.00 | ↑ +3171% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $21,882.83 | ↑ +4384% |
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Biliary endoscopy thru skin at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $4,499.88 | $697.31 – $8,591.80 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $4,499.88 | $697.31 – $8,591.80 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $4,499.88 | $1,718.36 – $8,591.80 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $472.00 | $184.00 – $752.00 |
| CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | Omaha | $4,499.88 | $697.31 – $8,591.80 |
| CHI Health St. Elizabeth | Lincoln | $393.00 | $180.78 – $628.80 |
| CHI Health Lakeside | Omaha | $4,499.88 | $697.31 – $8,591.80 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | not published | $697.31 – $697.31 |