Head CT scan (without contrast) at CHI Health Plainview
704 N 3rd St, Plainview, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1861765034
$2,150.40
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.
$2,560.00
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.
$1,335.18 with BCBS - NE vs $3,466.76 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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| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $1,335.18 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,405.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,561.60 | ↓ -27% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $1,561.60 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,561.60 | ↓ -27% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,561.60 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,561.60 | ↓ -27% |
| Todays Options | Medicare|All Plans | $1,592.84 | ↓ -26% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $1,592.84 | ↓ -26% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $1,639.68 | ↓ -24% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,639.68 | ↓ -24% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $1,664.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $1,664.00 | ↓ -23% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,730.56 | ↓ -20% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,329.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $2,329.60 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $2,432.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $2,457.60 | ↑ +14% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,508.80 | ↑ +17% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,508.80 | ↑ +17% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $3,466.76 | ↑ +61% |
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Head CT scan (without contrast) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $917.39 | $659.56 – $1,454.03 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $673.68 | $130.10 – $1,363.40 |
| CHI Health Schuyler | Schuyler | $2,176.00 | $548.36 – $2,898.44 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $673.68 | $130.10 – $1,363.40 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $951.74 | $130.10 – $1,696.58 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $1,908.17 | $492.45 – $2,207.04 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $673.68 | $239.53 – $1,363.40 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $1,584.78 | $130.10 – $2,416.14 |