X-ray forearm 2 views (both sides) at Ogallala Community Hospital
2601 N Spruce Street, Ogallala, NE · Banner Health · · NPI 1710915467
$231.20
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.
$322.00
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.
$141.68 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming vs $312.34 with Multiplan — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Medicare Advantage | $141.68 | ↓ -39% |
| Medica | Medicare Advantage | $141.68 | ↓ -39% |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp - VA CCN | Tricare | $141.68 | ↓ -39% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $141.68 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | VA Community Care | $148.12 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $148.12 | ↓ -36% |
| Nebraska Total Care | Medicaid | $157.78 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | Nebraska Medicaid/CHIP | $157.78 | ↓ -32% |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $157.78 | ↓ -32% |
| Keith County Sheriff’s Office | Imate/Detainee Plan | $241.50 | ↑ +4% |
| Apostrophe, Inc. | Commercial | $289.80 | ↑ +25% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial/Individual Exchange | $305.90 | ↑ +32% |
| Medica | Commercial | $306.87 | ↑ +33% |
| Coventry | Commercial | $309.12 | ↑ +34% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial | $309.12 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Medical Rental | $309.12 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming | Network Blue | $309.12 | ↑ +34% |
| Coventry | Workers Comp | $309.12 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $312.34 | ↑ +35% |
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X-ray forearm 2 views (both sides) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $194.46 | $40.57 – $393.55 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $304.30 | $11.79 – $62.28 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $194.46 | $40.57 – $393.55 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $120.98 | $40.57 – $215.66 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $240.70 | $15.86 – $71.04 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $194.46 | $56.99 – $393.55 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $264.74 | $40.57 – $403.62 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $275.53 | $40.57 – $438.98 |