Surgical pathology level 2 gross & microscopic examination at Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center
701 3rd Ave S, Clear Lake, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1851305296
$77.60
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.
$97.00
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.
$49.76 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $90.20 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.
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 | $49.76 | ↓ -36% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $53.35 | ↓ -31% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $53.45 | ↓ -31% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $53.45 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $53.93 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $53.93 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $53.93 | ↓ -31% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $53.93 | ↓ -31% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $55.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $62.76 | ↓ -19% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $67.24 | ↓ -13% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $72.75 | ↓ -6% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $76.67 | ↓ -1% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $79.10 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $79.35 | ↑ +2% |
| Medica | Choice | $80.03 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $81.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Wellmark | PPO | $83.42 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $84.29 | ↑ +9% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $85.22 | ↑ +10% |
| Medica | Elect | $85.55 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $87.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $87.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $87.30 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $87.30 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $89.74 | ↑ +16% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $90.20 | ↑ +16% |
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Surgical pathology level 2 gross & microscopic examination at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford USD Medical Center | Sioux Falls | $83.20 | $13.20 – $93.60 |
| Sanford Hospital Webster | Webster | $90.40 | $35.48 – $101.70 |
| Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center | Chamberlain | $149.60 | $63.95 – $168.30 |
| Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center | Canton | $77.60 | $33.17 – $87.30 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $85.60 | $31.57 – $96.30 |
| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | $96.80 | $37.29 – $108.90 |