Clindamycin 600 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback 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

$62.03

Cash price

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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.

$77.53

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.

$39.33 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $71.30 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 $39.33 ↓ -37%
Security Health Plan Commercial $42.17 ↓ -32%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $42.25 ↓ -32%
Wellmark SD Medicare Replacement $42.25 ↓ -32%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $42.63 ↓ -31%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $42.63 ↓ -31%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $42.63 ↓ -31%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $42.63 ↓ -31%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $43.47 ↓ -30%
Health Partners State Employees $49.61 ↓ -20%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange True $53.15 ↓ -14%
Health Partners Commercial $57.50 ↓ -7%
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/True $60.60 ↓ -2%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $62.52 ↑ +1%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota State Employees $62.72 ↑ +1%
Medica Choice $63.25 ↑ +2%
United Healthcare Commercial + Top 20 $64.02 ↑ +3%
Wellmark PPO $65.94 ↑ +6%
Aetna Commercial $66.63 ↑ +7%
Ucare Commercial $67.36 ↑ +9%
Medica Elect $67.62 ↑ +9%
Cigna Commercial $69.00 ↑ +11%
Multiplan Commercial $69.00 ↑ +11%
Healthez Commercial $69.00 ↑ +11%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $69.00 ↑ +11%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Commercial/Federal $70.94 ↑ +14%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $71.30 ↑ +15%

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Clindamycin 600 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at other South-dakota hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls $338.20 $2.18 – $351.50
Sanford Hospital Webster Webster $75.44 $21.72 – $62.26
Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center Chamberlain $62.65 $26.25 – $69.08
Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center Canton $126.20 $26.30 – $69.22
Sanford Vermillion Hospital Vermillion $189.64 $22.69 – $69.22

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