Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$1,059.57
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.
$1,737.00
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.
$268.80 with United vs $4,182.08 with One World — 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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| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $268.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $271.49 | ↓ -74% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $284.45 | ↓ -73% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $627.20 | ↓ -41% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $742.40 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $972.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $998.40 | ↓ -6% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $998.40 | ↓ -6% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $1,177.60 | ↑ +11% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,190.40 | ↑ +12% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,265.21 | ↑ +19% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $1,265.21 | ↑ +19% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,290.02 | ↑ +22% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $1,470.77 | ↑ +39% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,470.77 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,470.77 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,470.77 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,470.77 | ↑ +39% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $1,514.89 | ↑ +43% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $1,544.31 | ↑ +46% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,544.31 | ↑ +46% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $2,056.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,415.00 | ↑ +128% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $3,265.11 | ↑ +208% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $3,636.59 | ↑ +243% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $3,636.59 | ↑ +243% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $3,636.59 | ↑ +243% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $4,182.08 | ↑ +295% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $4,182.08 | ↑ +295% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $4,182.08 | ↑ +295% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $4,182.08 | ↑ +295% |
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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $268.24 | $145.20 – $320.10 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $1,227.24 | $224.64 – $1,060.80 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $1,309.00 | $91.04 – $481.19 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $1,227.24 | $174.72 – $1,060.80 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $708.40 | $196.08 – $669.94 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $893.08 | $91.04 – $408.00 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $1,227.24 | $212.16 – $1,060.80 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $1,178.23 | $284.45 – $1,203.20 |