Brain MRI (without contrast) at CHI Health Nebraska Heart
7500 S 91ST ST, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1699718437
$1,495.46
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.
$3,251.00
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.
$196.87 with Amerigroup vs $2,747.00 with United — 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 | $196.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $196.87 | ↓ -87% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $200.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -84% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $240.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $244.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $244.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $249.48 | ↓ -83% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $393.15 | ↓ -74% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $411.70 | ↓ -72% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $517.90 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $780.24 | ↓ -48% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $788.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,015.62 | ↑ +35% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,015.62 | ↑ +35% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,015.62 | ↑ +35% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $2,275.70 | ↑ +52% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $2,275.70 | ↑ +52% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,308.21 | ↑ +54% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,308.21 | ↑ +54% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,308.21 | ↑ +54% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,308.21 | ↑ +54% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,438.25 | ↑ +63% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $2,665.82 | ↑ +78% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $2,747.00 | ↑ +84% |
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Brain MRI (without contrast) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health St. Elizabeth | Lincoln | $1,512.50 | $249.48 – $2,420.00 |
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $1,308.27 | $825.88 – $1,820.69 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $1,454.04 | $249.48 – $2,942.70 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $4,866.25 | $1,226.30 – $6,481.85 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $1,454.04 | $249.48 – $2,942.70 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $3,211.27 | $662.95 – $2,971.20 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $1,454.04 | $512.79 – $2,942.70 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $2,357.04 | $249.48 – $3,593.52 |