(both sides) smear without diff wbc count at CHI Health Plainview
704 N 3rd St, Plainview, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1861765034
$47.88
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.
$57.00
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.
$3.43 with Humana vs $55.86 with PHCS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.43 | ↓ -93% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $3.43 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.43 | ↓ -93% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $3.43 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $3.43 | ↓ -93% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $3.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $3.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $3.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $3.61 | ↓ -92% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $7.61 | ↓ -84% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $37.05 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $37.05 | ↓ -23% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.54 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $51.45 | ↑ +7% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $51.87 | ↑ +8% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $51.87 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54.15 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $54.15 | ↑ +13% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $54.72 | ↑ +14% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $55.86 | ↑ +17% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $55.86 | ↑ +17% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $28.98 | $3.33 – $58.65 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $48.45 | $3.43 – $55.86 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $28.98 | $3.33 – $58.65 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $29.05 | $3.43 – $33.60 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $28.98 | $3.33 – $58.65 |
| CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | Omaha | $28.98 | $3.33 – $58.65 |
| CHI Health Lakeside | Omaha | $28.98 | $3.33 – $58.65 |