Ropivacaine 0.2 % epidural pca - 1 hour dose limit at Sanford Luverne Medical Center
1600 N Kniss Ave, Luverne, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1497703045
$278.16
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.
$347.69
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.
$18.26 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $71.37 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 | $18.26 | ↓ -93% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $26.55 | ↓ -90% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $28.44 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $28.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $28.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $28.74 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $28.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $28.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $29.31 | ↓ -89% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $35.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $40.42 | ↓ -85% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $40.42 | ↓ -85% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $41.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $47.55 | ↓ -83% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $47.55 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $51.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $60.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $61.71 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $62.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $65.56 | ↓ -76% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $66.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Medica | Choice | $66.31 | ↓ -76% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $67.90 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $67.90 | ↓ -76% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $67.90 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $67.90 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $69.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Medica | Elect | $71.37 | ↓ -74% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Ropivacaine 0.2 % epidural pca - 1 hour dose limit at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $48.46 | $14.66 – $54.51 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $82.40 | $1.02 – $8.07 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $64.85 | $1.00 – $68.08 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $165.68 | $14.93 – $39.11 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $165.68 | $14.93 – $39.11 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $136.68 | $0.06 – $0.10 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $1,037.16 | $0.06 – $38.56 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $136.68 | $0.06 – $0.08 |