Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$1,486.00
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.
$2,972.00
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.
$321.31 with United vs $1,902.08 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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| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $321.31 | ↓ -78% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $324.53 | ↓ -78% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $643.47 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $643.47 | ↓ -57% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $656.08 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $762.52 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $762.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $762.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $762.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $762.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $785.40 | ↓ -47% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $796.29 | ↓ -46% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $800.65 | ↓ -46% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $866.14 | ↓ -42% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $866.14 | ↓ -42% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $963.93 | ↓ -35% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,117.60 | ↓ -25% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,692.79 | ↑ +14% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $1,694.04 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $1,902.08 | ↑ +28% |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $561.20 | $292.80 – $1,000.40 |
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $2,486.40 | $1,628.00 – $3,589.00 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $1,659.00 | $228.60 – $1,079.50 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $3,479.90 | $825.32 – $4,362.37 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $1,659.00 | $177.80 – $1,079.50 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $2,454.31 | $633.39 – $2,838.72 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $1,659.00 | $215.90 – $1,079.50 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $2,168.55 | $746.55 – $3,306.15 |