Applicator tag rfid localizer 12gx7cm at Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center

3001 Sanford Pkwy, Thief River Falls, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1043218753

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$134.40

Cash price

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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.

$168.00

Gross charge

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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.

$21.30 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $58.28 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota PMAP $21.30 ↓ -84%
Sanford Health Plan Align Medicare Replacement $23.56 ↓ -82%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $25.30 ↓ -81%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Medicare Replacement $25.54 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $25.54 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $25.54 ↓ -81%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $25.54 ↓ -81%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $25.54 ↓ -81%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $26.04 ↓ -81%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/TRUE $33.22 ↓ -75%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange True $33.22 ↓ -75%
Security Health Plan Commercial $34.10 ↓ -75%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $39.08 ↓ -71%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $39.08 ↓ -71%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Commercial/Federal $42.84 ↓ -68%
Health Partners Commercial $50.22 ↓ -63%
United Healthcare Commercial + Top 20 $51.77 ↓ -61%
Aetna Commercial $53.88 ↓ -60%
Ucare Commercial $54.47 ↓ -59%
Medica Choice $54.50 ↓ -59%
Cigna Commercial $55.80 ↓ -58%
Multiplan Commercial $55.80 ↓ -58%
Healthez Commercial $55.80 ↓ -58%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $55.80 ↓ -58%
Medica Elect $58.28 ↓ -57%
Primewest Medicaid Managed Care not published by hospital —
Ucare Medicaid Managed Care not published by hospital —

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Applicator tag rfid localizer 12gx7cm at other Minnesota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls Thief River Falls $134.40 $21.30 – $55.80
Sanford Luverne Medical Center Luverne $99.20 $22.76 – $84.60
Sanford Bemidji Medical Center Bemidji $342.22 $1.02 – $65.29
Sanford Worthington Medical Center Worthington $88.80 $1.00 – $76.50
United Hospital MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings $4,901.14 not published
Owatonna Hospital Owatonna $5,717.99 $20.92 – $66.34
Abbott Northwestern Hospital MN 55407 $4,901.14 not published
Allina Health Faribault Medical Center Faribualt $5,717.99 $20.92 – $66.34

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