X-ray skull < 4 views at CHI Health St. Elizabeth
555 South 70th Street, Lincoln, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1336155738
$139.00
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.
$278.00
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.
$51.91 with Medica vs $227.84 with AMPS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $51.91 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $63.94 | ↓ -54% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $64.58 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $68.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.15 | ↓ -48% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $86.61 | ↓ -38% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.61 | ↓ -38% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $88.31 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -26% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -26% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $102.63 | ↓ -26% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $105.71 | ↓ -24% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $107.76 | ↓ -22% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $123.17 | ↓ -11% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $123.17 | ↓ -11% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $123.17 | ↓ -11% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $141.64 | ↑ +2% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $141.64 | ↑ +2% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $141.64 | ↑ +2% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $141.64 | ↑ +2% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $158.46 | ↑ +14% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $158.46 | ↑ +14% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $172.36 | ↑ +24% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $172.36 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $177.92 | ↑ +28% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $191.82 | ↑ +38% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $222.40 | ↑ +60% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $227.84 | ↑ +64% |
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X-ray skull < 4 views at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $295.10 | $180.84 – $398.67 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $143.64 | $51.91 – $290.70 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $337.45 | $15.86 – $83.79 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $143.64 | $47.88 – $290.70 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $242.36 | $16.50 – $73.92 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $143.64 | $58.14 – $290.70 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $311.71 | $51.91 – $475.23 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $323.91 | $51.91 – $516.06 |