Methotrexate sodium 2.5 mg tablet at Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center
3001 Sanford Pkwy, Thief River Falls, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1043218753
$8.24
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.
$10.29
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.
$2.30 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $6.29 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 | $2.30 | ↓ -72% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $2.54 | ↓ -69% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $2.73 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $2.76 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $2.76 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $2.76 | ↓ -67% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $2.76 | ↓ -67% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $2.76 | ↓ -67% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $2.81 | ↓ -66% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $3.58 | ↓ -57% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $3.58 | ↓ -57% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $3.68 | ↓ -55% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $4.22 | ↓ -49% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $4.22 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $4.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $5.42 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $5.59 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5.81 | ↓ -29% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $5.88 | ↓ -29% |
| Medica | Choice | $5.88 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6.02 | ↓ -27% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $6.02 | ↓ -27% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $6.02 | ↓ -27% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $6.02 | ↓ -27% |
| Medica | Elect | $6.29 | ↓ -24% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Methotrexate sodium 2.5 mg tablet at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $8.24 | $2.30 – $6.02 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $5.24 | $1.59 – $5.90 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $5.22 | $0.93 – $3.47 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $7.07 | $1.51 – $5.62 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $7.37 | $1.02 – $7.84 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $6.78 | $1.00 – $7.62 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $7.26 | $2.20 – $8.16 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $39.92 | $0.20 – $0.33 |