Tc-99m exametazime diag at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$1,090.50
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.
$2,181.00
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.
$501.63 with United vs $3,752.23 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 | $501.63 | ↓ -54% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $506.65 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $774.37 | ↓ -29% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $774.37 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $774.37 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $774.37 | ↓ -29% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $774.37 | ↓ -29% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $797.60 | ↓ -27% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $813.09 | ↓ -25% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $1,243.17 | ↑ +14% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $1,352.22 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $1,352.22 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $1,504.89 | ↑ +38% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,719.10 | ↑ +58% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,744.80 | ↑ +60% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $2,181.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $3,583.18 | ↑ +229% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,752.23 | ↑ +244% |
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Tc-99m exametazime diag at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $1,407.14 | $734.16 – $2,508.38 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $2,625.84 | $1,125.36 – $5,314.20 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $4,516.90 | $1,138.26 – $6,016.52 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $2,625.84 | $875.28 – $5,314.20 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $2,625.84 | $1,062.84 – $5,314.20 |
| CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | Omaha | $2,625.84 | $1,062.84 – $5,314.20 |
| CHI Health Plainview | Plainview | $4,463.76 | $3,241.54 – $7,196.22 |
| CHI Health Lakeside | Omaha | $2,625.84 | $1,000.32 – $5,314.20 |