Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid cervical/thoracic needle placement w/guidance at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$2,208.00
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.
$2,760.00
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.
$498.90 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $2,484.00 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 | $498.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $645.66 | ↓ -71% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $693.23 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $700.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $700.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $700.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $700.03 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $700.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $713.62 | ↓ -68% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $727.15 | ↓ -67% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $761.77 | ↓ -65% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $1,257.73 | ↓ -43% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $1,434.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $1,479.64 | ↓ -33% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $1,518.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $1,687.19 | ↓ -24% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,932.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $1,940.00 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $2,100.36 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,263.20 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,304.60 | ↑ +4% |
| Medica | Choice | $2,318.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $2,444.95 | ↑ +11% |
| Medica | Elect | $2,481.24 | ↑ +12% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $2,484.00 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $2,484.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,484.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,484.00 | ↑ +13% |
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Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid cervical/thoracic needle placement w/guidance at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $1,683.20 | $722.72 – $1,893.60 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $1,683.20 | $722.72 – $1,893.60 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $1,269.79 | $500.59 – $3,243.00 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $989.52 | $672.53 – $3,572.45 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $1,269.79 | $500.59 – $3,243.00 |
| Allina Health Faribault Medical Center | Faribualt | $989.52 | $672.53 – $3,572.45 |
| New Ulm Medical Center | MN 56073 | $893.26 | $691.10 – $2,079.30 |
| Mercy Hospital | MN 55443 | 550 Osborne Road NE. Fridley | $1,269.79 | $500.59 – $3,243.00 |