Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at Sanford Tracy Hospital
251 5th St E, Tracy, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1003851171
$80.00
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.
$100.00
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.
$18.16 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $70.50 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 | $18.16 | ↓ -77% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $29.25 | ↓ -63% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $31.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $31.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $31.65 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $31.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $31.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $31.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $32.29 | ↓ -60% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $36.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $41.25 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $51.68 | ↓ -35% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $59.21 | ↓ -26% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $59.21 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $60.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $61.35 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $62.63 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $65.18 | ↓ -19% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $65.90 | ↓ -18% |
| Medica | Choice | $65.93 | ↓ -18% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $67.50 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $67.50 | ↓ -16% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $67.50 | ↓ -16% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $67.50 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $69.39 | ↓ -13% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $69.65 | ↓ -13% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $69.65 | ↓ -13% |
| Medica | Elect | $70.50 | ↓ -12% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $194.40 | $19.61 – $72.90 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $80.00 | $18.16 – $67.50 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $48.00 | $3.93 – $14.63 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $40.00 | $6.05 – $22.50 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $70.79 | $14.28 – $53.09 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $15.60 | $1.02 – $14.85 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $75.59 | $1.00 – $39.89 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $40.03 | $1.26 – $2.02 |