Revision tips at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$10,434.66
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.
$17,106.00
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.
$694.60 with Medica vs $23,295.00 with Medica — 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 | $694.60 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $3,592.26 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $3,628.19 | ↓ -65% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $4,643.62 | ↓ -55% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $4,643.62 | ↓ -55% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $4,734.67 | ↓ -55% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,398.09 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,398.09 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5,398.09 | ↓ -48% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $5,398.09 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5,398.09 | ↓ -48% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $5,560.03 | ↓ -47% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $5,667.99 | ↓ -46% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $5,667.99 | ↓ -46% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $8,381.94 | ↓ -20% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $9,921.48 | ↓ -5% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $11,983.76 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $13,000.56 | ↑ +25% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $13,342.68 | ↑ +28% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $13,342.68 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $15,737.52 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $15,908.58 | ↑ +52% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $18,882.65 | ↑ +81% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $18,882.65 | ↑ +81% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $18,882.65 | ↑ +81% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $19,826.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $21,715.05 | ↑ +108% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $21,715.05 | ↑ +108% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $21,715.05 | ↑ +108% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $21,715.05 | ↑ +108% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23,295.00 | ↑ +123% |
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Revision tips at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $11,752.02 | $694.60 – $21,369.00 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $11,752.02 | $694.60 – $21,369.00 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $11,752.02 | $4,273.80 – $21,369.00 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $10,092.54 | $694.60 – $16,079.64 |
| CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | Omaha | $11,752.02 | $694.60 – $21,369.00 |
| CHI Health St. Elizabeth | Lincoln | $8,397.50 | $694.60 – $13,436.00 |
| CHI Health Lakeside | Omaha | $11,752.02 | $694.60 – $21,369.00 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | not published | $694.60 – $694.60 |