Bupivacaine 0.1 % epidural pca - 1 hour dose limit at Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center
300 S Byron Blvd, Chamberlain, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1134140825
$63.53
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.
$79.41
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.
$26.00 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $68.42 with First Choice Health Network — 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 | $26.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $27.90 | ↓ -56% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $27.90 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $28.20 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $28.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $28.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $28.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $28.74 | ↓ -55% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $41.65 | ↓ -34% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $41.81 | ↓ -34% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $47.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Exchange True | $49.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $49.18 | ↓ -23% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $55.87 | ↓ -12% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $57.02 | ↓ -10% |
| Medica | Choice | $62.72 | ↓ -1% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $63.48 | ↓ -0% |
| Wellmark SD | Commercial | $65.38 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $66.06 | ↑ +4% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $66.79 | ↑ +5% |
| Medica | Elect | $67.05 | ↑ +6% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $68.42 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $68.42 | ↑ +8% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $68.42 | ↑ +8% |
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Bupivacaine 0.1 % epidural pca - 1 hour dose limit at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center | Clear Lake | $61.17 | $38.98 – $68.38 |
| Sanford USD Medical Center | Sioux Falls | $318.64 | $0.02 – $350.98 |
| Sanford Hospital Webster | Webster | $62.48 | $23.96 – $68.69 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $62.55 | $22.41 – $68.38 |