Warde zinc at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$35.50
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.
$71.00
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.
$11.04 with Centene vs $56.80 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 | $11.04 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.04 | ↓ -69% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.25 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.39 | ↓ -68% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $11.39 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $11.39 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $11.39 | ↓ -68% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $11.39 | ↓ -68% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $11.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $11.96 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $14.51 | ↓ -59% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $15.16 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $16.33 | ↓ -54% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $16.50 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $22.07 | ↓ -38% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $23.42 | ↓ -34% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.52 | ↓ -31% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $25.29 | ↓ -29% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $40.47 | ↑ +14% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $43.64 | ↑ +23% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $43.64 | ↑ +23% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $43.64 | ↑ +23% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $44.02 | ↑ +24% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $44.02 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $48.99 | ↑ +38% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $50.18 | ↑ +41% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $50.18 | ↑ +41% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $50.18 | ↑ +41% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $50.18 | ↑ +41% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $56.80 | ↑ +60% |
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Warde zinc at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $34.50 | $11.04 – $61.50 |
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $37.39 | $15.40 – $33.95 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $31.50 | $11.04 – $63.75 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $136.85 | $3.65 – $25.29 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $31.50 | $10.50 – $63.75 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $99.60 | $3.65 – $25.29 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $31.50 | $11.04 – $63.75 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $17.69 | $6.09 – $29.00 |