Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at Sanford Canby Medical Center
112 St Olaf Ave S, Canby, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1780781054
$144.80
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.
$181.00
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.
$18.64 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $72.38 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 | $18.64 | ↓ -87% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $35.11 | ↓ -76% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $37.73 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $38.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $38.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $38.04 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $38.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $38.04 | ↓ -74% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $38.81 | ↓ -73% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $42.35 | ↓ -71% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $42.35 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $53.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $60.07 | ↓ -59% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $60.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $60.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $61.60 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $62.99 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $64.30 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $66.91 | ↓ -54% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $67.65 | ↓ -53% |
| Medica | Choice | $67.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -52% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -52% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -52% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -52% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $71.51 | ↓ -51% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $71.51 | ↓ -51% |
| Medica | Elect | $72.38 | ↓ -50% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $264.80 | $80.14 – $297.90 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $119.20 | $29.29 – $108.90 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $120.80 | $36.56 – $135.90 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $264.80 | $80.14 – $297.90 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $192.00 | $40.53 – $106.20 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $192.00 | $40.53 – $106.20 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $146.78 | $20.32 – $57.68 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $128.80 | $20.80 – $167.21 |