IV Push Injection (first drug) at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$340.00
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.
$425.00
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.
$11.39 with Sanford Health Plan vs $757.79 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 | $11.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $12.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $13.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $13.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $15.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $17.57 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $19.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $20.50 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $20.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Medica | Choice | $21.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Medica | Elect | $22.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $22.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $22.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $22.50 | ↓ -93% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $22.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $88.80 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $154.62 | ↓ -55% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $196.43 | ↓ -42% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $210.91 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $212.97 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $212.97 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $212.97 | ↓ -37% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $212.97 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $212.97 | ↓ -37% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $217.11 | ↓ -36% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $221.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $231.76 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $757.79 | ↑ +123% |
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IV Push Injection (first drug) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $484.80 | $6.05 – $22.50 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $374.40 | $88.80 – $387.00 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $340.00 | $88.80 – $382.50 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $178.40 | $53.99 – $200.70 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $323.20 | $88.80 – $363.60 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $166.52 | $80.64 – $217.11 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $374.40 | $88.80 – $387.00 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $261.60 | $88.80 – $294.30 |