Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
1300 Anne Street NW, Bemidji, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1801870191
$1,410.40
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.
$1,763.00
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.
$803.40 with Sanford Health Plan vs $5,662.25 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 | $803.40 | ↓ -43% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $916.05 | ↓ -35% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $945.14 | ↓ -33% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $969.65 | ↓ -31% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $1,077.72 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $1,155.40 | ↓ -18% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,234.10 | ↓ -13% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $1,239.21 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $1,341.64 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,445.66 | ↑ +3% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $1,448.32 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,472.11 | ↑ +4% |
| Medica | Choice | $1,480.92 | ↑ +5% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $1,555.04 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $1,570.28 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $1,570.28 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $1,570.28 | ↑ +11% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $1,570.28 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $1,570.28 | ↑ +11% |
| Medica | Elect | $1,584.94 | ↑ +12% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $1,586.70 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,586.70 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,586.70 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $1,586.70 | ↑ +13% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $1,600.77 | ↑ +13% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,631.11 | ↑ +16% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,708.78 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $5,662.25 | ↑ +301% |
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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $1,075.20 | $325.38 – $1,209.60 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $1,410.40 | $426.82 – $1,586.70 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $1,628.80 | $492.92 – $1,832.40 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $1,150.40 | $368.70 – $1,600.77 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $1,075.20 | $325.38 – $1,209.60 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $1,650.40 | $708.64 – $1,856.70 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $1,650.40 | $708.64 – $1,856.70 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $1,320.00 | $307.49 – $3,784.00 |