Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at Sanford Wheaton
401 12th St N, Wheaton, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1154615573
$1,933.60
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.
$2,417.00
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.
$585.16 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $2,271.98 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 | $585.16 | ↓ -70% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $984.44 | ↓ -49% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $1,218.17 | ↓ -37% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $1,307.60 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $1,319.68 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $1,319.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $1,319.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $1,319.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $1,319.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $1,329.35 | ↓ -31% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $1,345.06 | ↓ -30% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,462.29 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $1,663.62 | ↓ -14% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $1,907.98 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,957.77 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $2,018.20 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,100.37 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $2,123.58 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Choice | $2,124.54 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $2,175.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,175.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $2,175.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $2,236.21 | ↑ +16% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $2,244.67 | ↑ +16% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $2,244.67 | ↑ +16% |
| Medica | Elect | $2,271.98 | ↑ +18% |
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Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $1,934.40 | $585.40 – $2,176.20 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $2,092.80 | $633.33 – $2,354.40 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $1,156.80 | $350.08 – $1,301.40 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $2,092.80 | $653.96 – $2,354.40 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $1,389.60 | $661.03 – $1,534.50 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $1,989.60 | $854.28 – $2,238.30 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $1,989.60 | $854.28 – $2,238.30 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $1,028.74 | $214.05 – $3,895.00 |