Fluorouracil 50 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Sanford Westbrook Hospital
920 Bell Ave, Westbrook, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1942253547
$331.90
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.
$414.87
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.
$96.49 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $374.64 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 | $96.49 | ↓ -71% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $170.58 | ↓ -49% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $182.93 | ↓ -45% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $182.93 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $184.93 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $184.93 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $184.93 | ↓ -44% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $184.93 | ↓ -44% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $188.31 | ↓ -43% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $201.67 | ↓ -39% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $219.20 | ↓ -34% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $274.60 | ↓ -17% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $314.62 | ↓ -5% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $314.62 | ↓ -5% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $318.84 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $326.01 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $332.79 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $346.34 | ↑ +4% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $350.17 | ↑ +6% |
| Medica | Choice | $350.33 | ↑ +6% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $358.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $358.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $358.70 | ↑ +8% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $358.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $368.74 | ↑ +11% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $370.13 | ↑ +12% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $370.13 | ↑ +12% |
| Medica | Elect | $374.64 | ↑ +13% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Fluorouracil 50 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $434.96 | $130.02 – $483.35 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $301.60 | $1.00 – $184.81 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $244.96 | $74.13 – $275.58 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $319.54 | $121.93 – $319.46 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $319.54 | $121.93 – $319.46 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $143.80 | $2.36 – $3.77 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $167.76 | $2.36 – $4.51 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $143.80 | $2.36 – $3.14 |