Blood Culture Test at New Ulm Medical Center
1324 5th St N. New Ulm, MN 56073, MN · Allinahealth · · NPI 1558328435
$96.77
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.
$172.80
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.
$9.60 with allina aetna medicare (n) vs $133.51 with blue cross blue shield of minnesota — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| allina aetna medicare (n) | allina aetna medicare (n) | $9.60 | ↓ -90% |
| medicare | medicare (n) | $10.11 | ↓ -90% |
| ucare pmap (a b c d e g n o s u r h) | ucare pmap (abdmnorsuv) | $26.50 | ↓ -73% |
| blue cross blue shield of minnesota | bc pmap (n) | $26.98 | ↓ -72% |
| medica health system | medica pmap (n) | $41.88 | ↓ -57% |
| medicaid | medicaid ma (n) | $57.65 | ↓ -40% |
| medicare other | all other medicare (n) | $58.07 | ↓ -40% |
| medica | medica medicare (r) | $58.28 | ↓ -40% |
| medica health system | medica dual solutions (r) | $59.26 | ↓ -39% |
| bcbs | bc medicare (n) | $60.97 | ↓ -37% |
| all other medicaid | all other medicaid (n) | $63.22 | ↓ -35% |
| south country health alliance | scha msho (n) | $65.19 | ↓ -33% |
| south country health alliance | scha pmap (n) | $68.27 | ↓ -29% |
| aetna | aetna elevate (n r) | $80.69 | ↓ -17% |
| blue cross blue shield of minnesota | bc state health plan (n) | $82.28 | ↓ -15% |
| aetna | aetna performance (n r) | $87.17 | ↓ -10% |
| medica ubh (n) | medica ubh (n) | $92.19 | ↓ -5% |
| bc aware/blue plus (nr) | bc aware/blue plus (nr) | $92.34 | ↓ -5% |
| americas ppo (araz)(b d n o r s v) | americas ppo (araz)(b d n o r s v) | $101.59 | ↑ +5% |
| medica ubh pmap | medica ubh pmap (n) | $105.36 | ↑ +9% |
| blue cross blue shield of minnesota | bc premier(n) | $105.73 | ↑ +9% |
| hpi-cigna | hpi cigna (n) | $107.70 | ↑ +11% |
| first health (a c e g h u b d n o r s) | first health (abdmnosurv) | $110.63 | ↑ +14% |
| americas ppo (araz) (b d n h o r s) | americas ppo (araz) (b d n h o r s v) | $110.63 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna direct/indirect network | aetna direct/indirect network (n r) | $111.39 | ↑ +15% |
| bcbs | bc aehp (n) | $124.38 | ↑ +29% |
| all other contracted care (a b c d e g h n o r s u) | all other contracted care (a b c d m h n o r s u v) | $131.70 | ↑ +36% |
| blue cross blue shield of minnesota | bc high value/performance network (n) | $133.51 | ↑ +38% |
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Blood Culture Test at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $133.60 | $40.43 – $150.30 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $149.60 | $45.27 – $168.30 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $119.20 | $36.07 – $134.10 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $72.80 | $22.03 – $81.90 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $149.60 | $45.27 – $168.30 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $145.60 | $62.52 – $163.80 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $145.60 | $62.52 – $163.80 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $67.49 | $9.60 – $47.62 |