Vancomycin 1,000 mg intravenous injection at Sanford Tracy Hospital
251 5th St E, Tracy, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1003851171
$65.55
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.
$81.93
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.
$18.44 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $71.60 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 | $18.44 | ↓ -72% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $29.71 | ↓ -55% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $31.84 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $31.84 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $32.14 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $32.14 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $32.14 | ↓ -51% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $32.14 | ↓ -51% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $32.79 | ↓ -50% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $36.87 | ↓ -44% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $41.89 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $52.48 | ↓ -20% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $60.13 | ↓ -8% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $60.13 | ↓ -8% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $60.94 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $62.31 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $63.60 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $66.19 | ↑ +1% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $66.92 | ↑ +2% |
| Medica | Choice | $66.95 | ↑ +2% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $68.55 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $68.55 | ↑ +5% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $68.55 | ↑ +5% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $68.55 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $70.47 | ↑ +8% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $70.74 | ↑ +8% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $70.74 | ↑ +8% |
| Medica | Elect | $71.60 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Vancomycin 1,000 mg intravenous injection at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $74.49 | $18.55 – $68.95 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $73.00 | $18.59 – $69.09 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $63.00 | $15.02 – $55.82 |
| Sanford Wheaton | Wheaton | $33.37 | $7.62 – $28.31 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $115.27 | $18.55 – $68.96 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $112.56 | $26.01 – $52.01 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $69.22 | $29.99 – $69.62 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $74.84 | $15.35 – $40.22 |