Clindamycin 600 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$156.88
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.
$196.09
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.
$18.87 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $73.75 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 | $18.87 | ↓ -88% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $27.44 | ↓ -83% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $29.39 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $29.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $29.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $29.70 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $29.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $29.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $30.29 | ↓ -81% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $36.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $41.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $41.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $42.88 | ↓ -73% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $49.14 | ↓ -69% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $49.14 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $53.71 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $62.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $63.77 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $65.10 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $67.75 | ↓ -57% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $68.50 | ↓ -56% |
| Medica | Choice | $68.53 | ↓ -56% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $70.16 | ↓ -55% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $70.16 | ↓ -55% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $70.16 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $70.16 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $72.13 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica | Elect | $73.75 | ↓ -53% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Clindamycin 600 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $63.07 | $18.47 – $68.68 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $132.94 | $18.79 – $69.85 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $49.64 | $14.50 – $53.89 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $69.76 | $15.25 – $56.70 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $53.00 | $2.22 – $51.20 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $133.22 | $2.18 – $68.96 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $95.60 | $21.68 – $80.58 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $75.52 | $15.50 – $40.60 |