Red blood cells each unit at Sanford Canby Medical Center
112 St Olaf Ave S, Canby, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1780781054
$476.00
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.
$595.00
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.
$144.05 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $559.30 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 | $144.05 | ↓ -70% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $271.32 | ↓ -43% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $291.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $293.93 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $293.93 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $293.93 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $293.93 | ↓ -38% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $293.93 | ↓ -38% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $299.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $327.25 | ↓ -31% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $327.25 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $409.96 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $464.16 | ↓ -2% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $469.69 | ↓ -1% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $469.69 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $476.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $486.71 | ↑ +2% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $496.83 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $517.06 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $522.77 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Choice | $523.01 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $535.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $535.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $535.50 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $535.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $552.58 | ↑ +16% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $552.58 | ↑ +16% |
| Medica | Elect | $559.30 | ↑ +18% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Red blood cells each unit at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $507.20 | $153.49 – $570.60 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $430.40 | $137.10 – $484.20 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $433.60 | $136.65 – $487.80 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $507.20 | $153.49 – $570.60 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $926.11 | $101.22 – $353.42 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $1,138.09 | $101.22 – $1,499.63 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $926.11 | $101.22 – $361.30 |
| Allina Health Faribault Medical Center | Faribualt | $1,138.09 | $101.22 – $1,499.63 |