Brain MRI (without contrast) at Lasting Hope Recovery Center
415 S. 25th Avenue, Omaha, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1396969499
$1,454.04
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.
$3,462.00
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.
$203.92 with Centene vs $2,942.70 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|IA Total Care | $203.92 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $235.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $235.57 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $235.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $235.57 | ↓ -84% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $235.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $240.28 | ↓ -83% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $242.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $247.35 | ↓ -83% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $247.35 | ↓ -83% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $504.12 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $512.79 | ↓ -65% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $588.54 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $588.54 | ↓ -60% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $710.91 | ↓ -51% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $710.91 | ↓ -51% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $710.91 | ↓ -51% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $817.55 | ↓ -44% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $817.55 | ↓ -44% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $817.55 | ↓ -44% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $817.55 | ↓ -44% |
| ELAP | Commercial|All Plans | $1,142.46 | ↓ -21% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $1,800.24 | ↑ +24% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $2,077.20 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,458.02 | ↑ +69% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $2,596.50 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,942.70 | ↑ +102% |
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Brain MRI (without contrast) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $1,454.04 | $249.48 – $2,942.70 |
| CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | Omaha | $1,454.04 | $249.48 – $2,942.70 |
| CHI Health Lakeside | Omaha | $1,454.04 | $249.48 – $2,942.70 |
| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $1,308.27 | $825.88 – $1,820.69 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $1,454.04 | $249.48 – $2,942.70 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $4,866.25 | $1,226.30 – $6,481.85 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $1,495.46 | $249.48 – $2,665.82 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $3,211.27 | $662.95 – $2,971.20 |