Natriuretic peptide at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$183.20
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.
$229.00
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.
$28.57 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $111.63 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 | $28.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $41.54 | ↓ -77% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $44.49 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $44.96 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $44.96 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $44.96 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $44.96 | ↓ -75% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $44.96 | ↓ -75% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $45.84 | ↓ -75% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $55.81 | ↓ -70% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $63.22 | ↓ -65% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $63.22 | ↓ -65% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $64.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $74.38 | ↓ -59% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $74.38 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $81.30 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $94.40 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $96.52 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $98.53 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $102.54 | ↓ -44% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $103.67 | ↓ -43% |
| Medica | Choice | $103.72 | ↓ -43% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $106.20 | ↓ -42% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $106.20 | ↓ -42% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $106.20 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $106.20 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $109.17 | ↓ -40% |
| Medica | Elect | $111.63 | ↓ -39% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Natriuretic peptide at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $218.40 | $66.09 – $245.70 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $200.00 | $31.47 – $117.00 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $137.60 | $30.26 – $112.50 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $200.00 | $31.47 – $117.00 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $229.60 | $40.53 – $106.20 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $229.60 | $40.53 – $106.20 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $87.98 | $33.70 – $95.65 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $179.48 | $36.55 – $120.52 |