Chlamydia culture at Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center
300 S Byron Blvd, Chamberlain, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1134140825
$180.80
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.
$226.00
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.
$69.77 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $183.60 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 | $69.77 | ↓ -61% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $74.87 | ↓ -59% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $74.87 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $75.68 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $75.68 | ↓ -58% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $75.68 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $75.68 | ↓ -58% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $77.11 | ↓ -57% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $111.77 | ↓ -38% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $112.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/TRUE | $127.46 | ↓ -30% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Exchange True | $131.50 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $131.99 | ↓ -27% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $149.94 | ↓ -17% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $153.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Medica | Choice | $168.30 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $170.34 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellmark SD | Commercial | $175.44 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $177.28 | ↓ -2% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $179.23 | ↓ -1% |
| Medica | Elect | $179.93 | ↓ -0% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $183.60 | ↑ +2% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $183.60 | ↑ +2% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $183.60 | ↑ +2% |
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Chlamydia culture at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center | Clear Lake | $149.60 | $95.93 – $168.30 |
| Sanford Hospital Webster | Webster | $110.40 | $43.33 – $124.20 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $115.20 | $42.48 – $129.60 |
| Sanford USD Medical Center | Sioux Falls | not published | $18.62 – $40.14 |
| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | not published | $18.62 – $20.58 |