Potassium chloride 10 meq/100ml in sterile water intravenous piggyback 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

$140.76

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.

$175.95

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.

$25.91 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $68.18 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 $25.91 ↓ -82%
Wellmark SD Medicare Replacement $27.80 ↓ -80%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $27.80 ↓ -80%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $28.10 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $28.10 ↓ -80%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $28.10 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $28.10 ↓ -80%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $28.63 ↓ -80%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $41.50 ↓ -71%
Security Health Plan Commercial $41.66 ↓ -70%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/TRUE $47.33 ↓ -66%
Sanford Health Plan Exchange True $48.83 ↓ -65%
Health Partners State Employees $49.01 ↓ -65%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $55.68 ↓ -60%
Health Partners Commercial $56.81 ↓ -60%
Medica Choice $62.49 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Commercial + Top 20 $63.25 ↓ -55%
Wellmark SD Commercial $65.15 ↓ -54%
Aetna Commercial $65.83 ↓ -53%
Ucare Commercial $66.55 ↓ -53%
Medica Elect $66.81 ↓ -53%
Healthez Commercial $68.18 ↓ -52%
Multiplan Commercial $68.18 ↓ -52%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $68.18 ↓ -52%

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Potassium chloride 10 meq/100ml in sterile water intravenous piggyback at other South-dakota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center Clear Lake $109.46 $39.65 – $69.57
Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls $337.20 $1.00 – $144.18
Sanford Hospital Webster Webster $137.04 $21.91 – $62.80
Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center Canton $102.56 $26.09 – $68.65
Sanford Vermillion Hospital Vermillion $189.08 $22.50 – $68.65
Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center Aberdeen $101.15 $44.35 – $90.00

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