5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at Sanford Bagley Medical Center
203 4th Street NW, Bagley, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1932472255
$14.00
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.
$17.50
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.
$4.09 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $15.87 with Medica — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $4.09 | ↓ -71% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $7.70 | ↓ -45% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $8.27 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $8.34 | ↓ -40% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $8.34 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $8.34 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $8.34 | ↓ -40% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $8.51 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $9.05 | ↓ -35% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $9.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $9.28 | ↓ -34% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $13.33 | ↓ -5% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $13.33 | ↓ -5% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $13.67 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $14.09 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $14.67 | ↑ +5% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $14.83 | ↑ +6% |
| Medica | Choice | $14.84 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $15.19 | ↑ +9% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $15.19 | ↑ +9% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $15.19 | ↑ +9% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $15.19 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $15.62 | ↑ +12% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $15.68 | ↑ +12% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $15.68 | ↑ +12% |
| Medica | Elect | $15.87 | ↑ +13% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $86.40 | $26.15 – $97.20 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $80.00 | $24.21 – $90.00 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $40.00 | $12.11 – $45.00 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $70.79 | $21.42 – $79.63 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $14.00 | $7.97 – $15.75 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $75.59 | $8.02 – $85.03 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $80.00 | $24.21 – $90.00 |