Platelets each unit at CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy
7500 Mercy Road, Omaha, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1508941097
$87.78
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.
$209.00
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.
$35.36 with Centene vs $176.80 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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| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $35.36 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $35.36 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $64.09 | ↓ -27% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $64.09 | ↓ -27% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $65.34 | ↓ -26% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $68.64 | ↓ -22% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $74.03 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $74.03 | ↓ -16% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $74.03 | ↓ -16% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $74.03 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $74.03 | ↓ -16% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $75.51 | ↓ -14% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $76.25 | ↓ -13% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $77.73 | ↓ -11% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $77.73 | ↓ -11% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $124.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Creighton University Employees | Commercial|All Plans | $135.20 | ↑ +54% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $147.68 | ↑ +68% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $153.92 | ↑ +75% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $156.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $156.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $156.00 | ↑ +78% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $158.42 | ↑ +80% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $176.80 | ↑ +101% |
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Platelets each unit at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $87.78 | $29.12 – $176.80 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $87.78 | $35.36 – $176.80 |
| CHI Health Lakeside | Omaha | $87.78 | $33.28 – $176.80 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $87.78 | $37.44 – $176.80 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $158.95 | $40.06 – $211.73 |
| CHI Health St. Elizabeth | Lincoln | $182.50 | $83.95 – $292.00 |
| CHI Health Plainview | Plainview | $157.08 | $114.07 – $253.24 |