Diagnostic radio unlisted proc at Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center
2905 3rd Ave SE, Aberdeen, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1235406455
$960.00
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.
$1,200.00
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.
$83.65 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $828.94 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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| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $83.65 | ↓ -91% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $89.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $90.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $90.69 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $90.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Medicare Replacement | $90.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $90.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $92.45 | ↓ -90% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $400.04 | ↓ -58% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $456.14 | ↓ -52% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $470.57 | ↓ -51% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $496.10 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $499.71 | ↓ -48% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial | $536.60 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $568.26 | ↓ -41% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $704.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $739.64 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $753.17 | ↓ -22% |
| Medica | Choice | $774.82 | ↓ -19% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $811.80 | ↓ -15% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $811.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $811.80 | ↓ -15% |
| Medica | Elect | $828.94 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Wellmark | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
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Diagnostic radio unlisted proc at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford USD Medical Center | Sioux Falls | $951.20 | $40.28 – $1,070.10 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $808.80 | $298.25 – $909.90 |