Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$210.08
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.
$262.59
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.
$46.93 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $183.37 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 | $46.93 | ↓ -78% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $68.23 | ↓ -68% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $73.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $73.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $73.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $73.85 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $73.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $73.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $75.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $91.69 | ↓ -56% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $103.86 | ↓ -51% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $103.86 | ↓ -51% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $106.61 | ↓ -49% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $122.18 | ↓ -42% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $122.18 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $133.56 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $155.07 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $158.56 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $161.86 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $168.45 | ↓ -20% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $170.31 | ↓ -19% |
| Medica | Choice | $170.39 | ↓ -19% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $174.46 | ↓ -17% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $174.46 | ↓ -17% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $174.46 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $174.46 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $179.34 | ↓ -15% |
| Medica | Elect | $183.37 | ↓ -13% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $130.23 | $39.41 – $146.50 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $132.54 | $18.37 – $68.28 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $51.00 | $15.36 – $57.10 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $90.00 | $20.82 – $77.40 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $54.76 | $1.02 – $51.52 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $304.23 | $1.00 – $342.25 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $123.24 | $37.30 – $138.65 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $139.40 | $32.19 – $84.33 |