Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at Sanford Wheaton
401 12th St N, Wheaton, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1154615573
$39.92
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.
$49.90
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.
$4.36 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $16.92 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 | $4.36 | ↓ -89% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $9.07 | ↓ -77% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $9.74 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $9.83 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $9.83 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $9.83 | ↓ -75% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $9.83 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $9.83 | ↓ -75% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $9.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $10.02 | ↓ -75% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $10.89 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $12.39 | ↓ -69% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $14.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $14.58 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $15.03 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $15.64 | ↓ -61% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $15.81 | ↓ -60% |
| Medica | Choice | $15.82 | ↓ -60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $16.20 | ↓ -59% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $16.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $16.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $16.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $16.72 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $16.72 | ↓ -58% |
| Medica | Elect | $16.92 | ↓ -58% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $16.83 | $5.09 – $18.93 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $24.43 | $7.39 – $27.48 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $43.36 | $8.88 – $33.01 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $24.94 | $7.55 – $28.05 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $59.76 | $6.95 – $59.53 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $34.92 | $5.42 – $12.58 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $12.72 | $3.60 – $13.39 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $10.76 | $8.44 – $14.88 |