Head CT scan (without contrast) at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$934.00
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.
$1,868.00
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.
$86.61 with Centene vs $2,143.00 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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| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $86.61 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.61 | ↓ -91% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $88.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -89% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -89% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -89% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $105.71 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $107.76 | ↓ -88% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $130.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $212.18 | ↓ -77% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $222.19 | ↓ -76% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $227.84 | ↓ -76% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $395.04 | ↓ -58% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $395.04 | ↓ -58% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $395.04 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $429.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $433.94 | ↓ -54% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $454.30 | ↓ -51% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $454.30 | ↓ -51% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $454.30 | ↓ -51% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $454.30 | ↓ -51% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $1,064.76 | ↑ +14% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $1,158.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $1,158.16 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $1,288.92 | ↑ +38% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,494.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $1,804.00 | ↑ +93% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $2,143.00 | ↑ +129% |
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Head CT scan (without contrast) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $951.74 | $130.10 – $1,696.58 |
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $917.39 | $659.56 – $1,454.03 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $673.68 | $130.10 – $1,363.40 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $2,176.00 | $548.36 – $2,898.44 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $673.68 | $130.10 – $1,363.40 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $1,908.17 | $492.45 – $2,207.04 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $673.68 | $239.53 – $1,363.40 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $1,584.78 | $130.10 – $2,416.14 |