Culture body fluid at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$48.00
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.
$60.00
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.
$7.99 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $31.22 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 | $7.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $11.62 | ↓ -76% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $12.44 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $12.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $12.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $12.57 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $12.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $12.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $12.82 | ↓ -73% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $15.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $17.68 | ↓ -63% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $17.68 | ↓ -63% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $18.15 | ↓ -62% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $20.80 | ↓ -57% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $20.80 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $22.74 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $26.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $26.99 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $27.56 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $28.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $28.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Medica | Choice | $29.01 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $29.70 | ↓ -38% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $29.70 | ↓ -38% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $29.70 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $29.70 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $30.53 | ↓ -36% |
| Medica | Elect | $31.22 | ↓ -35% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Culture body fluid at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $99.20 | $23.24 – $86.40 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $136.00 | $33.89 – $126.00 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $87.20 | $26.39 – $98.10 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $136.00 | $33.89 – $126.00 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $159.20 | $18.55 – $48.60 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $159.20 | $18.55 – $48.60 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $58.18 | $8.03 – $30.90 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $53.14 | $8.03 – $38.93 |