Change cystostomy tube simple at Sanford Wheaton
401 12th St N, Wheaton, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1154615573
$596.00
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.
$745.00
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.
$180.36 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $700.30 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 | $180.36 | ↓ -70% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $255.37 | ↓ -57% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $375.48 | ↓ -37% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $403.05 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $406.77 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $406.77 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $406.77 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $406.77 | ↓ -32% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $406.77 | ↓ -32% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $409.75 | ↓ -31% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $414.59 | ↓ -30% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $450.73 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $512.78 | ↓ -14% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $588.10 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $603.45 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $622.08 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $647.41 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $654.56 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Choice | $654.86 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $670.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $670.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $670.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $689.27 | ↑ +16% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $691.88 | ↑ +16% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $691.88 | ↑ +16% |
| Medica | Elect | $700.30 | ↑ +18% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $692.00 | $209.42 – $778.50 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $628.80 | $190.29 – $707.40 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $706.40 | $178.29 – $794.70 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $540.80 | $182.15 – $608.40 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $657.60 | $255.37 – $739.80 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $657.60 | $255.37 – $739.80 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $657.12 | $221.47 – $3,243.00 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $657.12 | $221.47 – $3,243.00 |