Susceptibility agar dilution per agent at Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center
701 3rd Ave S, Clear Lake, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1851305296
$76.00
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.
$95.00
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.
$21.55 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $39.06 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 | $21.55 | ↓ -72% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $23.10 | ↓ -70% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $23.14 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $23.14 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $23.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $23.35 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $23.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $23.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $23.81 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $27.17 | ↓ -64% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $29.11 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $31.50 | ↓ -59% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $33.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $34.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $34.36 | ↓ -55% |
| Medica | Choice | $34.65 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $35.07 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellmark | PPO | $36.12 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $36.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $36.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Medica | Elect | $37.04 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $37.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $37.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $37.80 | ↓ -50% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $37.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $38.86 | ↓ -49% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $39.06 | ↓ -49% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Susceptibility agar dilution per agent at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Hospital Webster | Webster | $38.40 | $15.07 – $43.20 |
| Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center | Chamberlain | $84.00 | $13.00 – $34.20 |
| Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center | Canton | $34.40 | $10.94 – $28.80 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $29.60 | $10.92 – $33.30 |
| Sanford USD Medical Center | Sioux Falls | not published | $4.51 – $9.73 |
| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | not published | $4.51 – $4.99 |