Inj, acetaminophen (b braun) at Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center
3001 Sanford Pkwy, Thief River Falls, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1043218753
$74.64
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.
$93.30
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.
$16.02 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $43.85 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 | $16.02 | ↓ -79% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $17.73 | ↓ -76% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $19.03 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $19.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $19.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $19.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $19.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $19.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $19.59 | ↓ -74% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $25.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $25.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $25.66 | ↓ -66% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $29.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $29.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $32.24 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $37.79 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $38.95 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $40.54 | ↓ -46% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $40.99 | ↓ -45% |
| Medica | Choice | $41.01 | ↓ -45% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $41.99 | ↓ -44% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $41.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $41.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $41.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Medica | Elect | $43.85 | ↓ -41% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Inj, acetaminophen (b braun) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $74.64 | $16.02 – $41.99 |
| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $214.84 | $32.51 – $120.84 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $128.40 | $38.86 – $144.45 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $50.51 | $0.05 – $56.82 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $130.46 | $0.05 – $146.76 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $97.88 | $21.82 – $81.12 |