Pr incision & drainage abscess simple/single at Sanford Tracy Hospital
251 5th St E, Tracy, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1003851171
$624.00
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.
$780.00
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.
$173.10 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $672.10 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 | $173.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $208.64 | ↓ -67% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $278.85 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $298.87 | ↓ -52% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $298.87 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $301.73 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $301.73 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $301.73 | ↓ -52% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $301.73 | ↓ -52% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $307.81 | ↓ -51% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $346.06 | ↓ -45% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $393.25 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $492.64 | ↓ -21% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $564.42 | ↓ -10% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $564.42 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $572.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $584.87 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $597.03 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $621.34 | ↓ -0% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $628.20 | ↑ +1% |
| Medica | Choice | $628.49 | ↑ +1% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $643.50 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $643.50 | ↑ +3% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $643.50 | ↑ +3% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $643.50 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $661.52 | ↑ +6% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $664.02 | ↑ +6% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $664.02 | ↑ +6% |
| Medica | Elect | $672.10 | ↑ +8% |
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Pr incision & drainage abscess simple/single at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $585.60 | $177.22 – $658.80 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $624.00 | $173.10 – $643.50 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $556.00 | $168.26 – $625.50 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $537.60 | $162.69 – $604.80 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $414.40 | $125.41 – $466.20 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $556.00 | $144.42 – $625.50 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $435.20 | $147.55 – $489.60 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $540.00 | $208.64 – $607.50 |