Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$1,009.05
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.
$1,261.31
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.
$5.66 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $291.36 with Healthez — 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 | $5.66 | ↓ -99% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $8.24 | ↓ -99% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $8.29 | ↓ -99% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $8.64 | ↓ -99% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $8.90 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $8.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $8.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $8.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $8.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $8.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $9.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $27.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $147.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $168.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $173.55 | ↓ -83% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $178.05 | ↓ -82% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $197.90 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $226.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $227.55 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $246.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $265.46 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $270.31 | ↓ -73% |
| Medica | Choice | $271.93 | ↓ -73% |
| Medica | Elect | $291.03 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $291.36 | ↓ -71% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $291.36 | ↓ -71% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $291.36 | ↓ -71% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $291.36 | ↓ -71% |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $286.71 | $8.24 – $234.90 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $66.01 | $8.24 – $74.26 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $219.17 | $8.24 – $246.56 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $303.40 | $8.24 – $341.33 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $1,546.48 | $8.24 – $74.79 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $1,618.79 | $5.78 – $82.46 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $282.63 | $8.24 – $317.95 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $1,180.80 | $8.24 – $44.99 |