Controller infinity pt dbs at Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls
120 Labree Ave S, Thief River Falls, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1790842466
$1,392.80
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.
$1,741.00
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.
$584.98 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $1,600.82 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 | $584.98 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $647.14 | ↓ -54% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $694.82 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $701.64 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $701.64 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $701.64 | ↓ -50% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $701.64 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $701.64 | ↓ -50% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $715.26 | ↓ -49% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $912.47 | ↓ -34% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $912.47 | ↓ -34% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $936.65 | ↓ -33% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $1,073.40 | ↓ -23% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $1,073.40 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $1,176.77 | ↓ -16% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,379.43 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $1,422.01 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,479.91 | ↑ +6% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $1,496.26 | ↑ +7% |
| Medica | Choice | $1,496.94 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,532.70 | ↑ +10% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,532.70 | ↑ +10% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $1,532.70 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $1,532.70 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Elect | $1,600.82 | ↑ +15% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Controller infinity pt dbs at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $1,392.80 | $584.98 – $1,532.70 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $4,028.00 | $1.02 – $2,160.00 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $8,822.88 | not published |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $10,293.36 | $528.15 – $1,674.66 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $8,822.88 | not published |
| Allina Health Faribault Medical Center | Faribualt | $10,293.36 | $528.15 – $1,674.66 |
| New Ulm Medical Center | MN 56073 | $6,186.15 | $773.81 – $1,595.51 |
| Mercy Hospital | MN 55443 | 550 Osborne Road NE. Fridley | $8,822.88 | not published |