Brace wrist classic lft sm at Sanford Tracy Hospital
251 5th St E, Tracy, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1003851171
$57.60
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.
$72.00
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.
$5.57 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $21.62 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 | $5.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $8.97 | ↓ -84% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $9.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $9.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $9.71 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $9.71 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $9.71 | ↓ -83% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $9.71 | ↓ -83% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $9.90 | ↓ -83% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $11.13 | ↓ -81% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $12.65 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $15.85 | ↓ -72% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $18.16 | ↓ -68% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $18.16 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $18.40 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $18.81 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $19.21 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $19.99 | ↓ -65% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $20.21 | ↓ -65% |
| Medica | Choice | $20.22 | ↓ -65% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $20.70 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $20.70 | ↓ -64% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $20.70 | ↓ -64% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $20.70 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $21.28 | ↓ -63% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $21.36 | ↓ -63% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $21.36 | ↓ -63% |
| Medica | Elect | $21.62 | ↓ -62% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Brace wrist classic lft sm at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $52.00 | $5.33 – $19.80 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $57.60 | $5.57 – $20.70 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $52.00 | $7.51 – $27.90 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $362.98 | $8.82 – $92.46 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $16.00 | $7.37 – $92.46 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $408.10 | $13.27 – $82.03 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $476.11 | $9.61 – $106.28 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $408.10 | $13.27 – $31.87 |