Apheresis plasma at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$3,435.50
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.
$6,871.00
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.
$177.41 with Medica vs $7,934.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $177.41 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $347.76 | ↓ -90% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $351.24 | ↓ -90% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $861.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $937.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $937.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $1,043.28 | ↓ -70% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,209.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $1,335.12 | ↓ -61% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,335.12 | ↓ -61% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,361.30 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,582.13 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $1,582.13 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,582.13 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,582.13 | ↓ -54% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $1,582.13 | ↓ -54% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $1,629.59 | ↓ -53% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,661.24 | ↓ -52% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $2,461.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,892.00 | ↓ -16% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $3,067.66 | ↓ -11% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $3,067.66 | ↓ -11% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $3,067.66 | ↓ -11% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $3,512.33 | ↑ +2% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,527.81 | ↑ +3% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,527.81 | ↑ +3% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,527.81 | ↑ +3% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $3,527.81 | ↑ +3% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $6,675.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $7,934.00 | ↑ +131% |
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Apheresis plasma at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $3,344.66 | $177.41 – $5,962.22 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $2,270.52 | $177.41 – $4,595.10 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $3,330.30 | $839.24 – $4,435.96 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $2,270.52 | $177.41 – $4,595.10 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $3,480.19 | $898.15 – $4,025.28 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $2,270.52 | $919.02 – $4,595.10 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $1,826.95 | $177.41 – $2,785.35 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $1,767.64 | $177.41 – $2,816.24 |