Brace knee extender plus 22-30in at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$274.25
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.
$342.81
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.
$37.90 with Sanford Health Plan vs $958.90 with Primewest — 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 | SD Exchange True | $37.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $43.21 | ↓ -84% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $44.58 | ↓ -84% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $45.74 | ↓ -83% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $50.84 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $58.21 | ↓ -79% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $58.45 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $63.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $68.19 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $69.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Medica | Choice | $69.85 | ↓ -75% |
| Medica | Elect | $74.76 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $74.84 | ↓ -73% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $74.84 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $74.84 | ↓ -73% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $74.84 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $783.80 | ↑ +186% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $783.80 | ↑ +186% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $867.58 | ↑ +216% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $931.50 | ↑ +240% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $940.64 | ↑ +243% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $940.64 | ↑ +243% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $940.64 | ↑ +243% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $940.64 | ↑ +243% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $940.64 | ↑ +243% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $958.90 | ↑ +250% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Brace knee extender plus 22-30in at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $244.00 | $46.24 – $171.90 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $66.40 | $20.09 – $74.70 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $225.60 | $68.27 – $253.80 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $240.00 | $116.31 – $958.90 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $66.40 | $20.09 – $74.70 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $1,240.99 | $85.16 – $846.64 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $1,447.82 | $61.67 – $1,096.96 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $1,240.99 | $85.16 – $329.04 |