Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$96.06
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.
$192.12
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.
$1.23 with United vs $37.91 with Medica — 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 | $1.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $1.25 | ↓ -99% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $3.05 | ↓ -97% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $3.32 | ↓ -97% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $3.32 | ↓ -97% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $3.69 | ↓ -96% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $5.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $5.45 | ↓ -94% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7.59 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.59 | ↓ -92% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $7.59 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $7.59 | ↓ -92% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $7.59 | ↓ -92% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $7.82 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $7.97 | ↓ -92% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $16.85 | ↓ -82% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $36.21 | ↓ -62% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.91 | ↓ -61% |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $88.38 | $1.29 – $5.55 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $2,017.24 | $3.85 – $18.54 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $4,082.51 | $4.58 – $24.17 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $2,017.24 | $2.99 – $18.54 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $159.46 | $1.15 – $5.13 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $2,017.24 | $3.63 – $18.14 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $117.20 | $1.13 – $5.55 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $113.35 | $1.23 – $5.55 |