Chest X-ray at CHI Health Nebraska Heart
7500 S 91ST ST, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1699718437
$226.78
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.
$493.00
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.
$43.72 with Medica vs $404.26 with ELAP — 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 | $43.72 | ↓ -81% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $64.68 | ↓ -71% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.73 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $71.71 | ↓ -68% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $71.71 | ↓ -68% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $73.11 | ↓ -68% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $84.98 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $84.98 | ↓ -63% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $84.98 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $84.98 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $84.98 | ↓ -63% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $87.53 | ↓ -61% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $89.23 | ↓ -61% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $89.23 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $118.32 | ↓ -48% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $119.51 | ↓ -47% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $188.66 | ↓ -17% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $295.80 | ↑ +30% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $305.66 | ↑ +35% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $305.66 | ↑ +35% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $305.66 | ↑ +35% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $345.10 | ↑ +52% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $345.10 | ↑ +52% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $350.03 | ↑ +54% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $350.03 | ↑ +54% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $350.03 | ↑ +54% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $350.03 | ↑ +54% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $369.75 | ↑ +63% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $404.26 | ↑ +78% |
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Chest X-ray at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health St. Elizabeth | Lincoln | $226.50 | $43.72 – $362.40 |
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $294.29 | $203.28 – $448.14 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $204.12 | $19.44 – $91.80 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $385.90 | $12.64 – $66.80 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $204.12 | $15.12 – $91.80 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $262.28 | $14.78 – $66.24 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $204.12 | $18.36 – $91.80 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $303.17 | $43.72 – $462.21 |