Appendix Removal (Laparoscopic) at Lasting Hope Recovery Center
415 S. 25th Avenue, Omaha, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1396969499
$3,937.08
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.
$9,374.00
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.
$1,593.58 with Centene vs $11,997.31 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 |
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| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $1,593.58 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $1,593.58 | ↓ -60% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $3,093.42 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $4,405.78 | ↑ +12% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $4,874.48 | ↑ +24% |
| Centene | Medicaid|IA Total Care | $4,922.00 | ↑ +25% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $5,624.40 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,685.93 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5,685.93 | ↑ +44% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $5,685.93 | ↑ +44% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,685.93 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5,685.93 | ↑ +44% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $5,799.65 | ↑ +47% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $5,856.51 | ↑ +49% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $5,970.23 | ↑ +52% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $5,970.23 | ↑ +52% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $6,655.54 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $7,030.50 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,967.90 | ↑ +102% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $8,042.03 | ↑ +104% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $8,042.03 | ↑ +104% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $8,042.03 | ↑ +104% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $9,248.33 | ↑ +135% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $9,248.33 | ↑ +135% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $9,248.33 | ↑ +135% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $9,248.33 | ↑ +135% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $11,997.31 | ↑ +205% |
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Appendix Removal (Laparoscopic) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $3,937.08 | $1,101.64 – $7,967.90 |
| CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | Omaha | $3,937.08 | $1,101.64 – $7,967.90 |
| CHI Health Lakeside | Omaha | $3,937.08 | $1,101.64 – $7,967.90 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $3,937.08 | $1,101.64 – $7,967.90 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $1,382.95 | $348.51 – $1,842.09 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $1,350.41 | $348.51 – $1,561.92 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $4,360.89 | $1,101.64 – $6,648.57 |
| CHI Health Plainview | Plainview | $1,366.68 | $992.47 – $2,203.29 |