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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at Sanford Wheaton
401 12th St N, Wheaton, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1154615573
$1,397.60
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.
$1,747.00
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.
$575.70 with Ucare vs $1,699.50 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota — 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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| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $575.70 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $849.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $880.49 | ↓ -37% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $945.13 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $953.86 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $953.86 | ↓ -32% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $953.86 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $953.86 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $953.86 | ↓ -32% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $960.85 | ↓ -31% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $972.21 | ↓ -30% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,056.94 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $1,202.46 | ↓ -14% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $1,379.08 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,415.07 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $1,458.75 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,518.14 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $1,534.91 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Choice | $1,535.61 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $1,572.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $1,572.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,572.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $1,622.44 | ↑ +16% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $1,622.44 | ↑ +16% |
| Medica | Elect | $1,642.18 | ↑ +18% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $1,699.50 | ↑ +22% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $2,481.60 | $575.70 – $2,791.80 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $2,535.20 | $575.70 – $2,852.10 |
| Sanford Bagley Medical Center | Bagley | $2,280.00 | $575.70 – $2,565.00 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $2,258.40 | $575.70 – $2,540.70 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $2,280.00 | $397.99 – $2,565.00 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $2,164.80 | $406.59 – $2,435.40 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $2,535.20 | $575.70 – $2,852.10 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $2,196.00 | $575.70 – $2,470.50 |