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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center
3001 Sanford Pkwy, Thief River Falls, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1043218753
$2,927.20
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.
$3,659.00
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.
$1,370.75 with Primewest vs $3,439.46 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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| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,370.75 | ↓ -53% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,370.75 | ↓ -53% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $1,390.42 | ↓ -53% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $1,492.87 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $1,507.51 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $1,507.51 | ↓ -48% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $1,507.51 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $1,507.51 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $1,507.51 | ↓ -48% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $1,536.78 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $1,556.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $1,960.49 | ↓ -33% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $1,960.49 | ↓ -33% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $2,012.45 | ↓ -31% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $2,306.27 | ↓ -21% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $2,306.27 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $2,963.79 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $3,055.27 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $3,113.00 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,179.67 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $3,214.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Choice | $3,216.26 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,293.10 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $3,293.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $3,293.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,293.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Medica | Elect | $3,439.46 | ↑ +18% |
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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $2,927.20 | $1,370.75 – $3,293.10 |
| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $4,744.80 | $1,370.75 – $5,337.90 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $4,920.80 | $1,370.75 – $5,535.90 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $3,842.40 | $1,370.75 – $4,322.70 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $4,100.80 | $1,370.75 – $4,613.40 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $3,588.00 | $1,370.75 – $4,036.50 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $3,842.40 | $1,024.41 – $4,322.70 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $3,340.48 | $1,046.54 – $3,758.04 |