Amiodarone 150 mg/100 ml (1.5 mg/ml) in dextrose, iso-osmotic IV at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$225.12
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.
$281.39
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.
$64.30 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $251.25 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 | $64.30 | ↓ -71% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $93.49 | ↓ -58% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $100.13 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $101.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $101.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $101.19 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $101.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $101.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $103.18 | ↓ -54% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $125.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $142.30 | ↓ -37% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $142.30 | ↓ -37% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $146.07 | ↓ -35% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $167.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $167.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $182.99 | ↓ -19% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $212.47 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $217.25 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $221.77 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $230.80 | ↑ +3% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $233.35 | ↑ +4% |
| Medica | Choice | $233.45 | ↑ +4% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $239.03 | ↑ +6% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $239.03 | ↑ +6% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $239.03 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $239.03 | ↑ +6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $245.72 | ↑ +9% |
| Medica | Elect | $251.25 | ↑ +12% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Amiodarone 150 mg/100 ml (1.5 mg/ml) in dextrose, iso-osmotic IV at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $192.09 | $54.81 – $203.77 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $195.17 | $55.75 – $207.23 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $87.20 | $23.15 – $86.07 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $96.00 | $28.08 – $104.40 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $76.51 | $3.99 – $69.75 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $167.23 | $3.92 – $185.43 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $139.20 | $38.37 – $142.65 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $102.40 | $42.56 – $111.51 |