Blood typing patient serum at Owatonna Hospital
2250 NW 26th St, Owatonna, MN · Allinahealth · · NPI 1528025632
$276.98
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.
$494.60
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.
$16.33 with all other medicaid vs $494.60 with all other contracted care (a b c d e g h n o r s u) — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| all other medicaid | all other medicaid (o) | $16.33 | ↓ -94% |
| medicaid | medicaid ma (o) | $16.33 | ↓ -94% |
| south country health alliance | scha pmap (o) | $17.64 | ↓ -94% |
| blue cross blue shield | bc pmap (b d o s v) | $31.67 | ↓ -89% |
| allina aetna medicare (o) | allina aetna medicare (o) | $57.76 | ↓ -79% |
| medicare other | all other medicare (o) | $60.10 | ↓ -78% |
| medicare | medicare (o) | $60.80 | ↓ -78% |
| medica | medica medicare (o) | $62.50 | ↓ -77% |
| bcbs | bc medicare (o) | $63.11 | ↓ -77% |
| blue cross | allina health blueprint (bdoshv) | $67.85 | ↓ -76% |
| blue cross blue shield | bc state health plan (b d o s v) | $68.92 | ↓ -75% |
| blue cross blue shield of minnesota | bc premier (b d o s v) | $76.75 | ↓ -72% |
| blue cross blue shield | bc aehp (b d o s v) | $90.29 | ↓ -67% |
| blue cross blue shield of minnesota | bc high value/performance network (bdosv) | $96.92 | ↓ -65% |
| ucare pmap (a b c d e g n o s u r h) | ucare pmap (abdmnorsuv) | $99.51 | ↓ -64% |
| blue cross blue shield | bc aware/blue plus (b d o s v) | $102.02 | ↓ -63% |
| aetna | aetna elevate (bdosv) | $219.75 | ↓ -21% |
| aetna | aetna performance (bdosv) | $232.12 | ↓ -16% |
| medica health system | medica dual solutions (b d v o s) | $252.25 | ↓ -9% |
| aetna direct/indirect regional network | aetna direct/indirect regional (bdosv) | $293.20 | ↑ +6% |
| healthpartners | hpi (bdov) | $334.83 | ↑ +21% |
| united healthcare (bdohsv) | united healthcare (bdosv) | $340.78 | ↑ +23% |
| medica ubh (o) | medica ubh (o) | $346.22 | ↑ +25% |
| medica health system | medica elect (b d o s v) | $362.44 | ↑ +31% |
| health partners | hpi cigna (bdov) | $364.96 | ↑ +32% |
| medica | medica essentials (b d o s v) | $378.42 | ↑ +37% |
| medica mhps | medica mhps (bdosv) | $378.42 | ↑ +37% |
| americas ppo (araz)(b d n o r s v) | americas ppo (araz)(b d n o r s v) | $381.53 | ↑ +38% |
| medica ubh pmap | medica ubh pmap (o) | $395.68 | ↑ +43% |
| medica health system | medica choice (b d o s v) | $398.25 | ↑ +44% |
| first health (a c e g h u b d n o r s) | first health (abdmnosurv) | $415.46 | ↑ +50% |
| americas ppo (araz) (b d n h o r s) | americas ppo (araz) (b d n h o r s v) | $415.46 | ↑ +50% |
| 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) | $494.60 | ↑ +79% |
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