Potassium 24 hour urine at Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center

300 S Byron Blvd, Chamberlain, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1134140825

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$75.20

Cash price

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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.

$94.00

Gross charge

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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.

$5.47 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $14.40 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Sanford Health Plan Align Medicare Replacement $5.47 ↓ -93%
Wellmark SD Medicare Replacement $5.87 ↓ -92%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $5.87 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $5.94 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $5.94 ↓ -92%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $5.94 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $5.94 ↓ -92%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $6.05 ↓ -92%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $8.77 ↓ -88%
Security Health Plan Commercial $8.80 ↓ -88%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/TRUE $10.00 ↓ -87%
Sanford Health Plan Exchange True $10.31 ↓ -86%
Health Partners State Employees $10.35 ↓ -86%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $11.76 ↓ -84%
Health Partners Commercial $12.00 ↓ -84%
Medica Choice $13.20 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Commercial + Top 20 $13.36 ↓ -82%
Wellmark SD Commercial $13.76 ↓ -82%
Aetna Commercial $13.90 ↓ -82%
Ucare Commercial $14.06 ↓ -81%
Medica Elect $14.11 ↓ -81%
Healthez Commercial $14.40 ↓ -81%
Multiplan Commercial $14.40 ↓ -81%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $14.40 ↓ -81%

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Potassium 24 hour urine at other South-dakota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center Clear Lake $56.80 $36.42 – $63.90
Sanford Hospital Webster Webster $44.00 $15.07 – $43.20
Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center Canton $30.40 $13.00 – $34.20
Sanford Vermillion Hospital Vermillion $32.00 $11.80 – $36.00
Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls not published $4.49 – $9.69
Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center Aberdeen not published $4.49 – $4.97

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