Prednisolone sodium phosphate 15 mg/5 ml (3 mg/ml) oral solution at Sanford Bagley Medical Center
203 4th Street NW, Bagley, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1932472255
$13.11
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.
$16.38
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.
$1.53 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $5.96 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 | $1.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $2.89 | ↓ -78% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $3.11 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $3.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $3.13 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $3.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $3.13 | ↓ -76% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $3.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $3.40 | ↓ -74% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $3.42 | ↓ -74% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $3.49 | ↓ -73% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $5.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $5.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $5.14 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $5.29 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5.51 | ↓ -58% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $5.57 | ↓ -58% |
| Medica | Choice | $5.57 | ↓ -58% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $5.71 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5.71 | ↓ -56% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $5.71 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $5.71 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $5.87 | ↓ -55% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $5.89 | ↓ -55% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $5.89 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica | Elect | $5.96 | ↓ -55% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Prednisolone sodium phosphate 15 mg/5 ml (3 mg/ml) oral solution at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $3.40 | $1.03 – $3.83 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $14.63 | $1.20 – $4.46 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $14.64 | $3.38 – $12.56 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $5.27 | $1.59 – $5.92 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $9.92 | $1.02 – $11.15 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $3.89 | $1.00 – $4.37 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $4.96 | $1.50 – $5.57 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $3.71 | $1.59 – $4.17 |