Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at Sanford Canby Medical Center
112 St Olaf Ave S, Canby, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1780781054
$81.07
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.
$101.33
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.
$22.85 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $88.73 with Medica — 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 | $22.85 | ↓ -72% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $43.04 | ↓ -47% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $46.25 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $46.63 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $46.63 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $46.63 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $46.63 | ↓ -42% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $46.63 | ↓ -42% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $47.57 | ↓ -41% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $51.91 | ↓ -36% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $51.91 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $65.03 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $73.63 | ↓ -9% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $74.51 | ↓ -8% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $74.51 | ↓ -8% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $75.51 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $77.21 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $78.82 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $82.02 | ↑ +1% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $82.93 | ↑ +2% |
| Medica | Choice | $82.97 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $84.95 | ↑ +5% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $84.95 | ↑ +5% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $84.95 | ↑ +5% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $84.95 | ↑ +5% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $87.66 | ↑ +8% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $87.66 | ↑ +8% |
| Medica | Elect | $88.73 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $89.81 | $1.02 – $67.50 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $162.44 | $16.49 – $26.29 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $162.44 | $16.49 – $21.90 |
| New Ulm Medical Center | MN 56073 | $43.92 | $16.49 – $64.13 |
| Mercy Hospital | MN 55443 | 550 Osborne Road NE. Fridley | $162.44 | $16.49 – $21.90 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | not published | $1.00 – $1.00 |