IV Fluids (each additional hour) at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$160.00
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.
$200.00
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.
$24.15 with Sanford Health Plan vs $167.92 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota — 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 | $24.15 | ↓ -85% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $27.54 | ↓ -83% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $28.41 | ↓ -82% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $29.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $32.40 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $34.27 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $37.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $37.25 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $40.33 | ↓ -75% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $43.02 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $43.46 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $44.26 | ↓ -72% |
| Medica | Choice | $44.52 | ↓ -72% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $46.19 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $46.64 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $46.64 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $46.64 | ↓ -71% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $46.64 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $46.64 | ↓ -71% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $47.55 | ↓ -70% |
| Medica | Elect | $47.65 | ↓ -70% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $47.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $47.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $47.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $47.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $48.45 | ↓ -70% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $50.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $167.92 | ↑ +5% |
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IV Fluids (each additional hour) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $190.40 | $48.45 – $214.20 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $179.20 | $48.45 – $201.60 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $160.00 | $35.35 – $131.40 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $141.60 | $42.85 – $159.30 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $170.40 | $36.32 – $135.00 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $186.40 | $35.00 – $93.60 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $179.20 | $48.45 – $201.60 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $132.80 | $41.22 – $108.00 |