Echo stress at Sanford Worthington Medical Center
1018 6th Ave, Worthington, MN · Sanford Health · · NPI 1396712618
$2,179.20
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.
$2,724.00
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.
$406.59 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $2,468.68 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 | $406.59 | ↓ -81% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $511.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $548.86 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $554.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $554.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $554.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $554.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $554.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $565.01 | ↓ -74% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $603.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $603.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $1,002.20 | ↓ -54% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $1,002.20 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $1,163.25 | ↓ -47% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $1,179.02 | ↓ -46% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $1,179.02 | ↓ -46% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $1,421.75 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $1,502.15 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $1,592.36 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,835.35 | ↓ -16% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $2,018.89 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,119.70 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $2,158.48 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica | Choice | $2,305.82 | ↑ +6% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,326.50 | ↑ +7% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $2,326.50 | ↑ +7% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $2,326.50 | ↑ +7% |
| Medica | Elect | $2,468.68 | ↑ +13% |
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Echo stress at other Minnesota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canby Medical Center | Canby | $2,165.60 | $575.70 – $2,436.30 |
| Sanford Westbrook Hospital | Westbrook | $2,185.60 | $575.70 – $2,458.80 |
| Sanford Luverne Medical Center | Luverne | $2,052.80 | $575.70 – $2,309.40 |
| Sanford Bemidji Medical Center | Bemidji | $2,121.60 | $397.99 – $2,386.80 |
| Sanford Tracy Hospital | Tracy | $2,185.60 | $575.70 – $2,458.80 |
| Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center | Thief River Falls | $2,101.60 | $575.70 – $2,364.30 |
| Sanford Behavioral Health Thief River Falls | Thief River Falls | $2,101.60 | $575.70 – $2,364.30 |
| United Hospital | MN | 1175 Nininger Road. Hastings | $1,770.10 | $175.28 – $650.75 |