Platelet automated at CHI Health St. Mary's
1301 GRUNDMAN BLVD, Nebraska City, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1528016995
$55.61
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.
$67.00
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.
$4.48 with United vs $64.32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -92% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -92% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -92% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $4.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $4.71 | ↓ -92% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $9.95 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.36 | ↓ -74% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.64 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $27.47 | ↓ -51% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $27.47 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $60.47 | ↑ +9% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $60.97 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $60.97 | ↑ +10% |
| MultiPlan PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $63.65 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.65 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $64.32 | ↑ +16% |
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Platelet automated at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $8.43 | $6.16 – $13.58 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $52.92 | $4.35 – $107.10 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $67.15 | $4.48 – $77.42 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $52.92 | $4.35 – $107.10 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $18.40 | $4.35 – $32.80 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $52.92 | $4.35 – $107.10 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $17.08 | $4.35 – $28.00 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $47.79 | $4.35 – $76.14 |