Biopsy(ies) & aspiration(s) bone marrow diagnostic (both sides) at Sanford USD Medical Center
1305 W 18th St, Sioux Falls, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1821017880
$2,624.80
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.
$3,281.00
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.
$73.90 with Sanford Health Plan vs $3,573.89 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota — 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 | $73.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $73.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $73.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $73.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $1,099.14 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $1,259.44 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $1,279.59 | ↓ -51% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $1,804.55 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $2,208.11 | ↓ -16% |
| Medica | Choice | $2,211.39 | ↓ -16% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $2,306.21 | ↓ -12% |
| Medica | Elect | $2,365.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,509.97 | ↓ -4% |
| Sanford Health Plan Align | Medicare Replacement | $2,718.95 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,890.56 | ↑ +10% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $2,919.29 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $2,947.91 | ↑ +12% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $2,947.91 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $2,947.91 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $2,947.91 | ↑ +12% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $2,947.91 | ↑ +12% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $2,952.90 | ↑ +13% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,952.90 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $2,952.90 | ↑ +13% |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | $2,978.09 | ↑ +13% |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | $2,978.09 | ↑ +13% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $3,005.15 | ↑ +14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $3,490.15 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial | $3,573.89 | ↑ +36% |
| Wellmark | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Biopsy(ies) & aspiration(s) bone marrow diagnostic (both sides) at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | not published | $2,718.95 – $3,005.15 |