Arthrocentesis/aspiration/injection small joint/bursa without ultrasound guidance at Sanford USD Medical Center
1305 W 18th St, Sioux Falls, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1821017880
$540.00
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.
$675.00
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.
$35.62 with Sanford Health Plan vs $607.50 with First Choice Health Network — 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 | Group Health/True | $35.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $35.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $35.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $35.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $131.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $226.13 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $263.25 | ↓ -51% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $280.43 | ↓ -48% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $301.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $304.05 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $304.05 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $304.05 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $304.05 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $304.05 | ↓ -44% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $309.95 | ↓ -43% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $310.42 | ↓ -43% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $310.42 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $363.79 | ↓ -33% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $371.25 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial | $372.52 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $454.28 | ↓ -16% |
| Medica | Choice | $454.95 | ↓ -16% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $474.46 | ↓ -12% |
| Medica | Elect | $486.68 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $516.38 | ↓ -4% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $594.68 | ↑ +10% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $607.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $607.50 | ↑ +13% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $607.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Wellmark | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Arthrocentesis/aspiration/injection small joint/bursa without ultrasound guidance at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center | Canton | $446.40 | $190.84 – $502.20 |
| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | $471.20 | $261.22 – $530.10 |