Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$2,996.93
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.
$4,913.00
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.
$290.86 with Amerigroup vs $4,569.09 with MultiPlan PHCS — 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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| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $290.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $290.86 | ↓ -90% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $296.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -89% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $348.26 | ↓ -88% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $355.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $355.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $415.53 | ↓ -86% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $640.26 | ↓ -79% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $670.47 | ↓ -78% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $750.63 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $1,031.73 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $1,042.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $1,756.97 | ↓ -41% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $1,756.97 | ↓ -41% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $1,756.97 | ↓ -41% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,020.52 | ↓ -33% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,020.52 | ↓ -33% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,020.52 | ↓ -33% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,020.52 | ↓ -33% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $2,407.37 | ↓ -20% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $2,849.54 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $3,733.88 | ↑ +25% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $3,832.14 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $3,832.14 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $4,519.96 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,569.09 | ↑ +52% |
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Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $1,962.75 | $1,239.04 – $2,731.52 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $1,863.96 | $415.53 – $3,772.30 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $4,505.85 | $1,135.48 – $6,001.80 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $1,863.96 | $415.53 – $3,772.30 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $1,322.96 | $415.53 – $2,358.32 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $4,013.88 | $1,035.88 – $4,642.56 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $1,863.96 | $754.46 – $3,772.30 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $3,256.80 | $415.53 – $5,188.80 |