Mayo selenium at Sanford Wheaton
401 12th St N, Wheaton, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1154615573
$169.60
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.
$212.00
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.
$18.64 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $72.38 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 | $18.64 | ↓ -89% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $38.81 | ↓ -77% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $41.66 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $42.04 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $42.04 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $42.04 | ↓ -75% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $42.04 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $42.04 | ↓ -75% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $42.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $42.85 | ↓ -75% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $46.59 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $53.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $60.78 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $62.37 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $64.30 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $66.91 | ↓ -61% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $67.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Medica | Choice | $67.68 | ↓ -60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -59% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -59% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $71.24 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $71.51 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $71.51 | ↓ -58% |
| Medica | Elect | $72.38 | ↓ -57% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Mayo selenium at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $61.60 | $18.64 – $69.30 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $61.60 | $18.64 – $69.30 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $61.60 | $26.45 – $69.30 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $61.60 | $26.45 – $69.30 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $38.02 | $14.45 – $41.02 |
| Owatonna Hospital | Owatonna | $44.35 | $17.83 – $51.68 |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital | MN 55407 | $38.02 | $14.45 – $41.50 |
| Allina Health Faribault Medical Center | Faribualt | $44.35 | $17.83 – $51.68 |