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Head CT scan (without contrast) at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$1,863.20
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.
$2,329.00
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.
$79.32 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $2,096.10 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 |
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| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $79.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $99.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $106.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $107.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $107.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $107.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $107.49 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $107.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $109.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $111.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $116.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $388.73 | ↓ -79% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $1,061.33 | ↓ -43% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $1,210.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $1,248.58 | ↓ -33% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $1,280.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $1,423.72 | ↓ -24% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,630.30 | ↓ -13% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $1,637.05 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $1,772.37 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,909.78 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,944.72 | ↑ +4% |
| Medica | Choice | $1,956.36 | ↑ +5% |
| Medica | Elect | $2,093.77 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,096.10 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $2,096.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $2,096.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,096.10 | ↑ +13% |
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Head CT scan (without contrast) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $2,126.40 | $111.66 – $2,392.20 |
| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $1,952.80 | $111.66 – $2,196.90 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $1,663.20 | $111.66 – $1,871.10 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $1,795.20 | $81.04 – $2,019.60 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $2,126.40 | $111.66 – $2,392.20 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $1,690.40 | $111.66 – $1,901.70 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $1,690.40 | $111.66 – $1,901.70 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $1,863.20 | $111.66 – $2,096.10 |