Demonstration/evaluation utilization aersol generator/nebulizer/metered dose inhaler/ippb device at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$180.00
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.
$225.00
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.
$34.14 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $213.56 with Ucare — 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 | $34.14 | ↓ -81% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $49.63 | ↓ -72% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $53.16 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $53.72 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $53.72 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $53.72 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $53.72 | ↓ -70% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $53.72 | ↓ -70% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $54.78 | ↓ -70% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $66.69 | ↓ -63% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $75.55 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $75.55 | ↓ -58% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $77.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $88.87 | ↓ -51% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $88.87 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $97.15 | ↓ -46% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $112.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $115.34 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $117.74 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $122.53 | ↓ -32% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $123.88 | ↓ -31% |
| Medica | Choice | $123.94 | ↓ -31% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $126.90 | ↓ -30% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $126.90 | ↓ -30% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $126.90 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $126.90 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $130.45 | ↓ -28% |
| Medica | Elect | $133.39 | ↓ -26% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $213.56 | ↑ +19% |
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Demonstration/evaluation utilization aersol generator/nebulizer/metered dose inhaler/ippb device at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $110.40 | $33.41 – $124.20 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $204.00 | $61.74 – $229.50 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $115.20 | $34.86 – $129.60 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $204.80 | $65.62 – $209.59 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $164.00 | $62.42 – $209.59 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $204.00 | $61.74 – $229.50 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $182.40 | $78.32 – $205.20 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $182.40 | $78.32 – $205.20 |