Culture anaerobic additional method definitive id each at Sanford Tracy Hospital
251 5th St E, Tracy, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1003851171
$161.60
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.
$202.00
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.
$33.17 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $128.78 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 | $33.17 | ↓ -79% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $53.43 | ↓ -67% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $57.27 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $57.27 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $57.81 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $57.81 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $57.81 | ↓ -64% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $57.81 | ↓ -64% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $58.98 | ↓ -64% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $66.31 | ↓ -59% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $75.35 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $94.39 | ↓ -42% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $108.15 | ↓ -33% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $108.15 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $109.60 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $112.07 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $114.40 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $119.05 | ↓ -26% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $120.37 | ↓ -26% |
| Medica | Choice | $120.42 | ↓ -25% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $123.30 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $123.30 | ↓ -24% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $123.30 | ↓ -24% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $123.30 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $126.75 | ↓ -22% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $127.23 | ↓ -21% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $127.23 | ↓ -21% |
| Medica | Elect | $128.78 | ↓ -20% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $101.60 | $30.75 – $114.30 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $161.60 | $33.17 – $123.30 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $124.00 | $14.04 – $52.20 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $44.80 | $13.56 – $50.40 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $84.80 | $36.41 – $95.40 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $84.80 | $36.41 – $95.40 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $439.25 | $7.52 – $30.90 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $398.61 | $7.52 – $52.76 |