Vancomycin 1,000 mg intravenous injection at Sanford Medical Center Mayville
42 6th Ave SE, Mayville, ND · Sanford Health · · NPI 1518061803
$35.89
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.
$44.86
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.
$8.35 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota vs $32.02 with Sanford Health Plan — 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 | $8.35 | ↓ -77% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $17.03 | ↓ -53% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $18.27 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Medicare Replacement | $18.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $18.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $18.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $18.48 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $18.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $18.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $18.96 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | $23.37 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $26.89 | ↓ -25% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True/SD Exchange True | $27.22 | ↓ -24% |
| Medica | Choice | $28.45 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $28.79 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $29.96 | ↓ -17% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $30.29 | ↓ -16% |
| Medica | Elect | $30.41 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $31.03 | ↓ -14% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $31.03 | ↓ -14% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $31.03 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial | $31.90 | ↓ -11% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers/SD Exchange Commercial | $32.02 | ↓ -11% |
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Vancomycin 1,000 mg intravenous injection at other North-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Medical Center Bismarck | Bismarck | $320.88 | $9.98 – $28.31 |
| Sanford Medical Center Hillsboro | Hillsboro | $36.01 | $8.20 – $30.49 |
| Sanford Fargo Medical Center | Fargo | $691.48 | $5.83 – $18.90 |