Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$74.25
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.
$92.81
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.
$41.72 with Sanford Health Plan vs $82.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $41.72 | ↓ -44% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $47.57 | ↓ -36% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $49.09 | ↓ -34% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $50.36 | ↓ -32% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $50.42 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $54.04 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $54.04 | ↓ -27% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $54.14 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $54.67 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $54.67 | ↓ -26% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $54.67 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $54.67 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $54.67 | ↓ -26% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $55.72 | ↓ -25% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $55.73 | ↓ -25% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $55.97 | ↓ -25% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $58.38 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $64.09 | ↓ -14% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $64.36 | ↓ -13% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $69.68 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $75.08 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $76.45 | ↑ +3% |
| Medica | Choice | $76.91 | ↑ +4% |
| Medica | Elect | $82.31 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $82.40 | ↑ +11% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $82.40 | ↑ +11% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $82.40 | ↑ +11% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $82.40 | ↑ +11% |
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Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $124.52 | $37.68 – $140.09 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $248.58 | $55.72 – $260.75 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $190.23 | $43.81 – $101.70 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $105.12 | $28.27 – $105.10 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $121.71 | $52.26 – $136.92 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $121.71 | $52.26 – $136.92 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $293.33 | $48.91 – $86.15 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $342.22 | $48.91 – $124.67 |