Lidocaine (pf) 10 mg/ml (1 %) injection solution at Sanford Sheldon Medical Center
118 N 7th Ave, Sheldon, IA · Sanford Health · · NPI 1841200623
$63.56
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.
$79.45
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.
$6.84 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $21.60 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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| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $6.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $7.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $7.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $7.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Medicare Replacement | $7.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $7.42 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $7.42 | ↓ -88% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $7.56 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellmark | HMO | $12.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellmark | PPO | $12.48 | ↓ -80% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $12.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $12.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $13.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $15.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $15.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $15.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $18.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Medica | Choice | $19.80 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $20.04 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $20.86 | ↓ -67% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $21.09 | ↓ -67% |
| Medica | Elect | $21.17 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $21.60 | ↓ -66% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $21.60 | ↓ -66% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $21.60 | ↓ -66% |
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Lidocaine (pf) 10 mg/ml (1 %) injection solution at other Iowa hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Allen Hospital | Waterloo | $7.24 | $0.01 – $0.01 |
| UnityPoint Health - Finley Hospital | Dubuque | $7.09 | $0.01 – $0.17 |
| UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center | Grinnell | $5.18 | $0.01 – $0.05 |
| UnityPoint Health - Iowa Lutheran Hospital | Des Moines | $7.09 | $0.01 – $0.01 |
| UnityPoint Health - Jones Regional Medical Center | Anamosa | $5.34 | $0.01 – $0.20 |
| UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown | Marshalltown | $3.68 | $0.01 – $0.19 |
| UnityPoint Health - St. Lukes Downtown | Sioux City | $7.09 | $0.01 – $0.01 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf | Bettendorf | $7.12 | $0.01 – $0.01 |