Contrast x-ray of knee joint at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$954.04
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.
$1,564.00
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.
$151.54 with Medica vs $1,454.52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $151.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $244.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $256.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $290.86 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $290.86 | ↓ -70% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $296.57 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $328.44 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $331.73 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -65% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -65% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $338.12 | ↓ -65% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $348.26 | ↓ -63% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $355.03 | ↓ -63% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $355.03 | ↓ -63% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $580.35 | ↓ -39% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $580.35 | ↓ -39% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $580.35 | ↓ -39% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $667.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $667.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $667.40 | ↓ -30% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $667.40 | ↓ -30% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $750.63 | ↓ -21% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $766.36 | ↓ -20% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $907.12 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $1,188.64 | ↑ +25% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $1,219.92 | ↑ +28% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $1,219.92 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $1,438.88 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,454.52 | ↑ +52% |
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Contrast x-ray of knee joint at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $326.34 | $139.86 – $660.45 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $664.70 | $167.51 – $885.39 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $326.34 | $108.78 – $660.45 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $960.31 | $247.83 – $1,110.72 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $326.34 | $132.09 – $660.45 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $854.32 | $151.54 – $1,361.12 |
| CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | Omaha | $326.34 | $132.09 – $660.45 |
| CHI Health St. Elizabeth | Lincoln | $760.00 | $151.54 – $1,216.00 |