Betamethasone acetate and sodium phos 6 mg/ml suspension for injection at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$66.59
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.
$83.23
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.
$19.85 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $77.58 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 | $19.85 | ↓ -70% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $28.87 | ↓ -57% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $30.92 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $31.25 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $31.25 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $31.25 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $31.25 | ↓ -53% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $31.25 | ↓ -53% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $31.86 | ↓ -52% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $38.79 | ↓ -42% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $43.94 | ↓ -34% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $43.94 | ↓ -34% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $45.11 | ↓ -32% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $51.69 | ↓ -22% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $51.69 | ↓ -22% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $56.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $65.61 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $67.08 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $68.48 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $71.27 | ↑ +7% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $72.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Medica | Choice | $72.09 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $73.81 | ↑ +11% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $73.81 | ↑ +11% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $73.81 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $73.81 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $75.88 | ↑ +14% |
| Medica | Elect | $77.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Betamethasone acetate and sodium phos 6 mg/ml suspension for injection at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $65.93 | $19.35 – $71.95 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $54.74 | $16.56 – $61.58 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $30.27 | $8.89 – $33.04 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $57.88 | $1.02 – $57.08 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $65.20 | $1.00 – $73.35 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $66.80 | $20.21 – $75.14 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $41.15 | $17.41 – $45.61 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $41.15 | $17.41 – $45.61 |