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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at Sanford Fargo Medical Center
5225 23rd Ave S, Fargo, ND · Sanford Health · · NPI 1528009412
$3,676.80
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.
$4,596.00
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.
$432.40 with Sanford Health Plan vs $4,136.40 with Multiplan — 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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| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $432.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $432.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $432.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $432.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $1,034.58 | ↓ -72% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $1,240.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $1,331.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $1,344.64 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $1,344.64 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Medicare Replacement | $1,344.64 | ↓ -63% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $1,344.64 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $1,344.64 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $1,344.64 | ↓ -63% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $1,370.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,488.22 | ↓ -60% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $1,488.22 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,884.36 | ↓ -49% |
| Medica | Choice | $2,068.20 | ↓ -44% |
| Medica | Elect | $2,210.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial | $2,507.43 | ↓ -32% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $2,527.80 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $2,913.86 | ↓ -21% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $3,230.53 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,929.58 | ↑ +7% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4,003.12 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,136.40 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $4,136.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $4,136.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $4,136.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at other North-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Medical Center Bismarck | Bismarck | $3,233.60 | $432.40 – $3,637.80 |
| Sanford Medical Center Hillsboro | Hillsboro | not published | $1,556.50 – $1,556.50 |
| Sanford Medical Center Mayville | Mayville | not published | $1,556.50 – $1,556.50 |