Ibandronate 3 mg/3 ml intravenous syringe at Sanford Wheaton
401 12th St N, Wheaton, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1154615573
$102.71
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.
$128.38
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.
$28.09 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $109.08 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 | $28.09 | ↓ -73% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $58.48 | ↓ -43% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $62.78 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $63.36 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $63.36 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $63.36 | ↓ -38% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $63.36 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $63.36 | ↓ -38% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $63.82 | ↓ -38% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $64.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $70.20 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $79.87 | ↓ -22% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $91.60 | ↓ -11% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $93.99 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $96.89 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $100.84 | ↓ -2% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $101.95 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica | Choice | $102.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $104.44 | ↑ +2% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $104.44 | ↑ +2% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $104.44 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $107.36 | ↑ +5% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $107.77 | ↑ +5% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $107.77 | ↑ +5% |
| Medica | Elect | $109.08 | ↑ +6% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Ibandronate 3 mg/3 ml intravenous syringe at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $754.18 | $228.23 – $848.45 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $768.24 | $232.49 – $864.27 |
| Sanford Worthington Medical Center | Worthington | $843.75 | $1.00 – $949.21 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $754.18 | $29.12 – $108.27 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $768.18 | $22.62 – $36.07 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $1,038.74 | $22.62 – $649.06 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $768.18 | $22.62 – $30.03 |
| Allina Health Faribault Medical Center | Faribualt | $1,038.74 | $22.62 – $649.06 |