MRI chest without contrast at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$1,951.00
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.
$3,902.00
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.
$196.87 with Centene vs $3,121.60 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 | $196.87 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $196.87 | ↓ -90% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $200.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -88% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -88% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $233.29 | ↓ -88% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $240.29 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $244.95 | ↓ -87% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $517.90 | ↓ -73% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $527.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $679.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $711.72 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $897.46 | ↓ -54% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $906.44 | ↓ -54% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $1,545.70 | ↓ -21% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $1,545.70 | ↓ -21% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $1,545.70 | ↓ -21% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,777.56 | ↓ -9% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,777.56 | ↓ -9% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,777.56 | ↓ -9% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $1,777.56 | ↓ -9% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $2,224.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $2,359.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $2,419.24 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $2,419.24 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $2,692.38 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $2,805.00 | ↑ +44% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $3,121.60 | ↑ +60% |
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MRI chest without contrast at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $2,011.54 | $1,269.84 – $2,799.42 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $1,755.60 | $527.14 – $3,553.00 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $2,368.10 | $596.77 – $3,154.31 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $1,755.60 | $527.14 – $3,553.00 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $2,724.89 | $703.22 – $3,151.68 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $1,755.60 | $710.60 – $3,553.00 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $2,687.66 | $527.14 – $4,097.58 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $2,631.40 | $527.14 – $4,192.40 |