Denosumab 120 mg/1.7 ml (70 mg/ml) subcutaneous solution at Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center
3001 Sanford Pkwy, Thief River Falls, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1043218753
$5,159.32
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.
$6,449.15
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.
$1,206.30 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $3,301.09 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 | $1,206.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $1,334.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $1,432.81 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $1,446.86 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $1,446.86 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $1,446.86 | ↓ -72% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $1,446.86 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $1,446.86 | ↓ -72% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $1,474.96 | ↓ -71% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $1,881.62 | ↓ -64% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $1,881.62 | ↓ -64% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $1,931.49 | ↓ -63% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $2,213.49 | ↓ -57% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $2,213.49 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $2,426.65 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $2,844.56 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $2,932.35 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,051.75 | ↓ -41% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $3,085.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Medica | Choice | $3,086.87 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,160.62 | ↓ -39% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,160.62 | ↓ -39% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $3,160.62 | ↓ -39% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $3,160.62 | ↓ -39% |
| Medica | Elect | $3,301.09 | ↓ -36% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Denosumab 120 mg/1.7 ml (70 mg/ml) subcutaneous solution at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $5,159.32 | $1,206.30 – $3,160.62 |
| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $2,759.43 | $593.27 – $2,205.47 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $2,710.85 | $593.27 – $2,205.47 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $3,516.08 | $752.35 – $2,796.82 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $4,887.27 | $859.70 – $3,195.90 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $1,735.76 | $24.66 – $1,426.23 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $4,977.12 | $24.22 – $3,047.87 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $4,331.62 | $859.95 – $3,196.84 |