Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at Sanford Tracy Hospital
251 5th St E, Tracy, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1003851171
$615.20
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.
$769.00
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.
$122.50 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $475.64 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 | $122.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $197.34 | ↓ -68% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $211.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $211.51 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $213.53 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $213.53 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $213.53 | ↓ -65% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $213.53 | ↓ -65% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $217.83 | ↓ -65% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $244.90 | ↓ -60% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $278.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $348.63 | ↓ -43% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $399.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $399.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $404.80 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $413.91 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $422.51 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $439.71 | ↓ -29% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $444.57 | ↓ -28% |
| Medica | Choice | $444.77 | ↓ -28% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $455.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $455.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $455.40 | ↓ -26% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $455.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $468.15 | ↓ -24% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $469.92 | ↓ -24% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $469.92 | ↓ -24% |
| Medica | Elect | $475.64 | ↓ -23% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $812.00 | $161.96 – $602.10 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $615.20 | $122.50 – $455.40 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $611.20 | $184.96 – $687.60 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $812.00 | $161.96 – $602.10 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $2,158.16 | $1.02 – $687.60 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $912.00 | $1.00 – $979.20 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $420.00 | $131.22 – $343.80 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $420.00 | $131.22 – $343.80 |