Homogenization tissue at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$33.55
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.
$55.00
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.
$5.70 with Amerigroup vs $51.15 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 | $5.70 | ↓ -83% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $5.70 | ↓ -83% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.81 | ↓ -83% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -82% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $6.06 | ↓ -82% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $6.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $6.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $11.34 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $11.55 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $11.67 | ↓ -65% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $12.09 | ↓ -64% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.66 | ↓ -62% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $13.05 | ↓ -61% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $26.95 | ↓ -20% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $31.90 | ↓ -5% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $35.44 | ↑ +6% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $35.44 | ↑ +6% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $35.44 | ↑ +6% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $40.76 | ↑ +21% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $40.76 | ↑ +21% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $40.76 | ↑ +21% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $40.76 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $41.80 | ↑ +25% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $42.90 | ↑ +28% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $42.90 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $50.60 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $51.15 | ↑ +52% |
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Homogenization tissue at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $35.72 | $22.88 – $50.44 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $34.44 | $5.70 – $69.70 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $62.90 | $5.88 – $72.52 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $34.44 | $5.70 – $69.70 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $37.26 | $5.70 – $66.42 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $68.89 | $5.88 – $79.68 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $34.44 | $5.70 – $69.70 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $46.61 | $5.70 – $74.26 |