Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$79.87
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.
$99.83
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.
$23.73 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $92.71 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 | $23.73 | ↓ -70% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $34.50 | ↓ -57% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $36.95 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $37.34 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $37.34 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $37.34 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $37.34 | ↓ -53% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $37.34 | ↓ -53% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $38.07 | ↓ -52% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $46.35 | ↓ -42% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $52.51 | ↓ -34% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $52.51 | ↓ -34% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $53.90 | ↓ -33% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $61.77 | ↓ -23% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $61.77 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $67.52 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $78.40 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $80.16 | ↑ +0% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $81.83 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $85.16 | ↑ +7% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $86.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Medica | Choice | $86.14 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $88.20 | ↑ +10% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $88.20 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $88.20 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $88.20 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $90.67 | ↑ +14% |
| Medica | Elect | $92.71 | ↑ +16% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $59.55 | $17.52 – $65.13 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $81.15 | $1.02 – $71.33 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $89.72 | $1.00 – $91.92 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $86.99 | $19.40 – $30.94 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $101.49 | $19.40 – $83.47 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $86.99 | $19.40 – $25.76 |
| Allina Health Faribault Medical Center | Faribualt | $101.49 | $19.40 – $83.47 |
| New Ulm Medical Center | MN 56073 | $96.07 | $19.40 – $86.10 |