Lung function test (mbc/mvv) at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$220.21
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.
$361.00
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.
$22.91 with Medica vs $335.73 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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| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $22.91 | ↓ -90% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.39 | ↓ -89% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $27.39 | ↓ -88% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $48.38 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $48.38 | ↓ -78% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $49.33 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $56.24 | ↓ -74% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $56.24 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $56.24 | ↓ -74% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $56.24 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $56.24 | ↓ -74% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $57.93 | ↓ -74% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $59.05 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $59.05 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $75.81 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $76.57 | ↓ -65% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $124.85 | ↓ -43% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $176.89 | ↓ -20% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $209.38 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $274.36 | ↑ +25% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $281.58 | ↑ +28% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $281.58 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $332.12 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $335.73 | ↑ +52% |
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Lung function test (mbc/mvv) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $110.42 | $77.00 – $169.75 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $63.94 | $22.91 – $113.98 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $212.99 | $22.91 – $339.34 |
| CHI Health St. Elizabeth | Lincoln | $180.50 | $22.91 – $288.80 |