Electrolyte panel at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$117.00
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.
$234.00
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.
$6.79 with Centene vs $180.00 with MultiPlan PHCS — 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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| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $6.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.79 | ↓ -94% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $7.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $7.36 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $8.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $9.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $13.25 | ↓ -89% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $14.41 | ↓ -88% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.09 | ↓ -87% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $15.56 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $51.75 | ↓ -56% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $52.27 | ↓ -55% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $56.85 | ↓ -51% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $56.85 | ↓ -51% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $56.85 | ↓ -51% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $65.38 | ↓ -44% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $65.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $65.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $65.38 | ↓ -44% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $128.25 | ↑ +10% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $139.50 | ↑ +19% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $139.50 | ↑ +19% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $155.25 | ↑ +33% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $180.00 | ↑ +54% |
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Electrolyte panel at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $41.40 | $6.79 – $56.58 |
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $47.81 | $34.32 – $75.66 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $108.36 | $6.79 – $210.80 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $150.45 | $4.72 – $21.56 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $108.36 | $6.79 – $210.80 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $90.47 | $5.36 – $24.00 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $108.36 | $6.79 – $210.80 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $56.12 | $6.79 – $85.56 |