Esophagoscopy flex remove fb at Sanford USD Medical Center

1305 W 18th St, Sioux Falls, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1821017880

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 4, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$2,360.00

Cash price

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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.

$2,950.00

Gross charge

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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.

$139.47 with Sanford Health Plan vs $2,655.00 with Healthez — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Sanford Health Plan Group Health/True $139.47 ↓ -94%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange True $139.47 ↓ -94%
Sanford Health Plan SD Exchange Commercial $139.47 ↓ -94%
Sanford Health Plan Commercial/ND Pers $139.47 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota PMAP $843.40 ↓ -64%
Health Partners State Employees $988.25 ↓ -58%
Health Partners Commercial $1,150.50 ↓ -51%
Security Health Plan Commercial $1,622.50 ↓ -31%
Sanford Health Plan Align Medicare Replacement $1,802.14 ↓ -24%
Ucare Medicare Replacement $1,934.93 ↓ -18%
Health Partners Medicare Replacement $1,953.90 ↓ -17%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Medicare Replacement $1,953.90 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Medicare Replacement $1,953.90 ↓ -17%
Aetna Medicare Replacement $1,953.90 ↓ -17%
Great Plains Medicare Advantage Medicare Replacement $1,953.90 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare CSP Top 20 $1,985.35 ↓ -16%
Medica Choice $1,988.30 ↓ -16%
Primewest Medicare Replacement $1,991.84 ↓ -16%
Primewest Medicaid Managed Care $1,994.29 ↓ -15%
Ucare Medicaid Managed Care $1,994.29 ↓ -15%
Ucare Commercial $2,073.56 ↓ -12%
Medica Elect $2,126.95 ↓ -10%
Aetna Commercial $2,256.75 ↓ -4%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota State Employees $2,337.21 ↓ -1%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Commercial $2,393.29 ↑ +1%
United Healthcare Commercial $2,598.95 ↑ +10%
Multiplan Commercial $2,655.00 ↑ +13%
First Choice Health Network Commercial $2,655.00 ↑ +13%
Healthez Commercial $2,655.00 ↑ +13%
Wellmark HMO/PPO not published by hospital —

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Sanford Vermillion Hospital Vermillion $1,930.40 $711.84 – $2,171.70
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