Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at CHI Health Schuyler
104 West 17th Street, Schuyler, NE · Chihealth · · NPI 1568547032
$1,242.70
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.
$1,462.00
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.
$152.52 with Amerigroup vs $806.13 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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| Amerigroup | Medicaid|All Plans | $152.52 | ↓ -88% |
| IAMolina | Medicaid|All Plans | $155.51 | ↓ -87% |
| Great Plains | Medicare|All Plans | $363.12 | ↓ -71% |
| PACE | Medicare|All Plans | $363.12 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - NE | Medicare|All Plans | $363.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Medica | Medicare|All Plans | $363.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $363.12 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $363.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Centene | Medicare|All Plans | $370.39 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $381.28 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $405.84 | ↓ -67% |
| Centene | Medicaid|NE Total Care | $405.84 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|BluePrint | $642.58 | ↓ -48% |
| Medica | Commercial|CHI Health | $647.92 | ↓ -48% |
| Medica | Commercial|All Other Plans | $647.92 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - NE | Commercial|All Other Plans | $676.40 | ↓ -46% |
| Timpte | Commercial|Broad Network | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| QuikTrip | Commercial|All Plans | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Medica | Commercial|Open Access | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Medica | Commercial|ACO | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Premier | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Midlands Choice | Commercial|Standard | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|All Plans | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Narrow Network | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| One World | Commercial|Broad Network | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| One World | Commercial|Narrow Network | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Broad Network | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Greater Omaha Packing | Commercial|Narrow Network | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| Millard Public Schools | Commercial|Broad Network | $683.52 | ↓ -45% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $697.76 | ↓ -44% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $697.76 | ↓ -44% |
| AMPS | Commercial|All Plans | $806.13 | ↓ -35% |
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Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at other Nebraska hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala | $189.51 | $102.52 – $226.01 |
| CHI Health Midlands | Papillion | $714.84 | $34.02 – $586.30 |
| CHI Health Immanuel | Omaha | $714.84 | $26.46 – $586.30 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart | Lincoln | $1,205.66 | $205.46 – $1,423.52 |
| CHI Health St. Mary's | Nebraska City | $761.94 | $169.44 – $759.36 |
| Lasting Hope Recovery Center | Omaha | $714.84 | $32.13 – $160.65 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | Kearney | $1,088.24 | $205.46 – $1,493.58 |
| CHI Health St. Francis | Grand Island | $1,052.56 | $205.46 – $1,543.48 |