Vancomycin 1,000 mg intravenous injection at Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center
701 3rd Ave S, Clear Lake, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1851305296
$72.80
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.
$90.99
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.
$4.59 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $8.31 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 | $4.59 | ↓ -94% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $4.92 | ↓ -93% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $4.93 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellmark SD | Medicare Replacement | $4.93 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $4.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $4.97 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $4.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $4.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $5.07 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $5.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $6.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $6.71 | ↓ -91% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $7.07 | ↓ -90% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $7.29 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $7.31 | ↓ -90% |
| Medica | Choice | $7.38 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial + Top 20 | $7.46 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellmark | PPO | $7.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $7.77 | ↓ -89% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $7.85 | ↓ -89% |
| Medica | Elect | $7.89 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $8.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $8.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $8.05 | ↓ -89% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $8.05 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial/Federal | $8.27 | ↓ -89% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $8.31 | ↓ -89% |
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Vancomycin 1,000 mg intravenous injection at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford USD Medical Center | Sioux Falls | $366.34 | $103.28 – $351.43 |
| Sanford Hospital Webster | Webster | $69.21 | $24.12 – $69.15 |
| Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center | Chamberlain | $70.25 | $26.16 – $68.83 |
| Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center | Canton | $70.25 | $26.19 – $68.93 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $70.25 | $22.72 – $69.30 |