Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center
3001 Sanford Pkwy, Thief River Falls, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1043218753
$5,004.77
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.
$6,255.96
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.
$174.97 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $478.82 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 | $174.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $193.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $207.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $209.86 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $209.86 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $209.86 | ↓ -96% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $209.86 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $209.86 | ↓ -96% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $213.94 | ↓ -96% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $272.93 | ↓ -95% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $272.93 | ↓ -95% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $280.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $321.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $321.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $351.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $412.60 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $425.33 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $442.65 | ↓ -91% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $447.54 | ↓ -91% |
| Medica | Choice | $447.75 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $458.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $458.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $458.44 | ↓ -91% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $458.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Medica | Elect | $478.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $5,004.77 | $174.97 – $458.44 |
| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $603.21 | $166.80 – $620.08 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $1,527.04 | $93.20 – $346.46 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $1,241.69 | $52.91 – $196.70 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $1,799.89 | $67.11 – $249.47 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $2,571.60 | $83.92 – $311.98 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $868.00 | $2.78 – $262.71 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $2,524.80 | $2.78 – $136.80 |