Ventilator initial day at CHI Health Good Samaritan
10 East 31st Street, Kearney, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336184019
$1,224.88
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,008.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$156.82 with Medica vs $1,867.44 with MultiPlan PHCS — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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|All Other Plans | $156.82 | ↓ -87% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $174.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $176.18 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $421.68 | ↓ -66% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $425.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $538.44 | ↓ -56% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $538.44 | ↓ -56% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $549.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $625.92 | ↓ -49% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $625.92 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $625.92 | ↓ -49% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $625.92 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $625.92 | ↓ -49% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $644.70 | ↓ -47% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $657.22 | ↓ -46% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $657.22 | ↓ -46% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $983.92 | ↓ -20% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $1,164.64 | ↓ -5% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,389.54 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $1,526.08 | ↑ +25% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $1,566.24 | ↑ +28% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $1,566.24 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $1,847.36 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,867.44 | ↑ +52% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Ventilator initial day at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $688.82 | $535.48 – $1,180.49 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $401.10 | $132.48 – $625.60 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $575.45 | $145.02 – $766.50 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $401.10 | $103.04 – $625.60 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $787.52 | $156.82 – $1,403.84 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $1,700.67 | $211.85 – $949.44 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $401.10 | $125.12 – $625.60 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $1,184.72 | $156.82 – $1,887.52 |