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Colonoscopy (with polyp removal) at Sanford Medical Center Hillsboro
12 3rd St SE, Hillsboro, ND · Sanford Health · · NPI 1184725194
$1,958.40
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.
$2,448.00
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.
$1,116.29 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $2,382.60 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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| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $1,116.29 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $1,191.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $1,199.52 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $1,209.31 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Medicare Replacement | $1,209.31 | ↓ -38% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $1,209.31 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $1,209.31 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $1,209.31 | ↓ -38% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $1,233.79 | ↓ -37% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $1,346.40 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $1,589.24 | ↓ -19% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,909.44 | ↓ -3% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $1,932.45 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica | Choice | $2,019.60 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $2,044.08 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,127.31 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $2,150.81 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Elect | $2,159.14 | ↑ +10% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $2,203.20 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $2,203.20 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,203.20 | ↑ +13% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/Group Health/True/SD Exchange Commercial | $2,273.46 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial | $2,382.60 | ↑ +22% |
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Colonoscopy (with polyp removal) at other North-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Medical Center Mayville | Mayville | $1,958.40 | $1,191.30 – $2,203.20 |
| Sanford Fargo Medical Center | Fargo | $2,662.40 | $249.32 – $2,995.20 |
| Sanford Medical Center Bismarck | Bismarck | not published | $249.32 – $1,238.03 |