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Blood Clotting (PT/INR) Test at Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center

701 3rd Ave S, Clear Lake, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1851305296

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

$52.80

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.

$66.00

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.

$27.19 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $49.28 with Sanford Health Plan — 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 $27.19 ↓ -49%
Security Health Plan Commercial $29.15 ↓ -45%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $29.20 ↓ -45%
Wellmark SD Medicare Replacement $29.20 ↓ -45%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $29.47 ↓ -44%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $29.47 ↓ -44%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $29.47 ↓ -44%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $29.47 ↓ -44%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $30.05 ↓ -43%
Health Partners State Employees $34.29 ↓ -35%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange True $36.74 ↓ -30%
Health Partners Commercial $39.75 ↓ -25%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/True $41.89 ↓ -21%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $43.22 ↓ -18%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota State Employees $43.35 ↓ -18%
Medica Choice $43.73 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Commercial + Top 20 $44.26 ↓ -16%
Wellmark PPO $45.58 ↓ -14%
Aetna Commercial $46.06 ↓ -13%
Ucare Commercial $46.57 ↓ -12%
Medica Elect $46.75 ↓ -11%
Cigna Commercial $47.70 ↓ -10%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $47.70 ↓ -10%
Healthez Commercial $47.70 ↓ -10%
Multiplan Commercial $47.70 ↓ -10%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Commercial/Federal $49.04 ↓ -7%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $49.28 ↓ -7%

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Blood Clotting (PT/INR) Test at other South-dakota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford Hospital Webster Webster $59.20 $11.93 – $34.20
Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center Chamberlain $91.20 $6.50 – $17.10
Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center Canton $33.60 $14.02 – $36.90
Sanford Vermillion Hospital Vermillion $35.20 $10.92 – $33.30
Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls not published $4.08 – $8.79
Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center Aberdeen not published $4.08 – $4.50

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