Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at Sanford Wheaton
401 12th St N, Wheaton, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1154615573
$20.50
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.
$25.62
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.
$5.61 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $21.79 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 | $5.61 | ↓ -73% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $11.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $12.54 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $12.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $12.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $12.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $12.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $12.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $12.75 | ↓ -38% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $12.90 | ↓ -37% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $14.02 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $15.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $18.30 | ↓ -11% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $18.78 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $19.36 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $20.14 | ↓ -2% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $20.37 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica | Choice | $20.38 | ↓ -1% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $20.86 | ↑ +2% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $20.86 | ↑ +2% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $20.86 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $21.45 | ↑ +5% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $21.53 | ↑ +5% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $21.53 | ↑ +5% |
| Medica | Elect | $21.79 | ↑ +6% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $37.20 | $6.47 – $24.04 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $34.90 | $7.19 – $26.74 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $36.00 | $10.04 – $37.33 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $47.66 | $6.47 – $24.04 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $7.11 | $4.05 – $25.21 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $53.44 | $10.90 – $25.30 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $23.78 | $7.20 – $26.75 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $29.37 | $12.61 – $33.04 |