Culture bact stool aero addl path ea at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$44.80
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.
$56.00
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.
$12.59 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $49.19 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 | $12.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $18.30 | ↓ -59% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $19.60 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $19.81 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $19.81 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $19.81 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $19.81 | ↓ -56% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $19.81 | ↓ -56% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $20.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $24.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $27.86 | ↓ -38% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $27.86 | ↓ -38% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $28.60 | ↓ -36% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $32.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $32.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $35.83 | ↓ -20% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $41.60 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $42.54 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $43.42 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $45.19 | ↑ +1% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $45.69 | ↑ +2% |
| Medica | Choice | $45.71 | ↑ +2% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $46.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $46.80 | ↑ +4% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $46.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $46.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $48.11 | ↑ +7% |
| Medica | Elect | $49.19 | ↑ +10% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Culture bact stool aero addl path ea at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $51.20 | $15.49 – $57.60 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $56.00 | $16.95 – $63.00 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $36.80 | $11.14 – $41.40 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $56.00 | $16.95 – $63.00 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $80.00 | $34.35 – $90.00 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $80.00 | $34.35 – $90.00 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $30.10 | $8.79 – $30.90 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $35.11 | $8.79 – $38.93 |