Calcium chloride 100 mg/ml (10 %) intravenous syringe at Sanford Bagley Medical Center
203 4th Street NW, Bagley, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1932472255
$56.25
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.
$70.31
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.
$16.58 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $64.38 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 | $16.58 | ↓ -71% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $31.23 | ↓ -44% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $33.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $33.83 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $33.83 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $33.83 | ↓ -40% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $33.83 | ↓ -40% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $34.52 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $36.71 | ↓ -35% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $36.92 | ↓ -34% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $37.67 | ↓ -33% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $54.07 | ↓ -4% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $54.07 | ↓ -4% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $55.48 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $57.19 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $59.52 | ↑ +6% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $60.18 | ↑ +7% |
| Medica | Choice | $60.20 | ↑ +7% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $61.64 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $61.64 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $61.64 | ↑ +10% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $61.64 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $63.37 | ↑ +13% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $63.61 | ↑ +13% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $63.61 | ↑ +13% |
| Medica | Elect | $64.38 | ↑ +14% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Calcium chloride 100 mg/ml (10 %) intravenous syringe at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $67.18 | $18.24 – $67.81 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $66.40 | $20.09 – $74.69 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $30.64 | $7.73 – $28.75 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $67.52 | $19.81 – $73.65 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $55.47 | $30.97 – $61.95 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $66.49 | $32.14 – $74.61 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $67.05 | $20.13 – $74.82 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $36.93 | $15.86 – $41.54 |