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Established Patient Office Visit (level 2) at Sanford USD Medical Center
1305 W 18th St, Sioux Falls, SD · Sanford Health · · NPI 1821017880
$335.20
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.
$419.00
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.
$51.29 with Sanford Health Plan Align vs $198.00 with Multiplan — 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 | $51.29 | ↓ -85% |
| Ucare | Medicare Replacement | $55.07 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare Replacement | $55.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Medicare Replacement | $55.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Great Plains Medicare Advantage | Medicare Replacement | $55.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Partners | Medicare Replacement | $55.61 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Replacement | $55.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Primewest | Medicare Replacement | $56.69 | ↓ -83% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange True | $58.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | Commercial | $62.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | PMAP | $62.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota | State Employees | $62.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Group Health/True | $66.35 | ↓ -80% |
| Sanford Health Plan | SD Exchange Commercial | $68.46 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Partners | State Employees | $73.70 | ↓ -78% |
| Sanford Health Plan | Commercial/ND Pers | $78.06 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Partners | Commercial | $85.80 | ↓ -74% |
| Security Health Plan | Commercial | $121.00 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | CSP Top 20 | $148.06 | ↓ -56% |
| Medica | Choice | $148.28 | ↓ -56% |
| Ucare | Commercial | $154.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Medica | Elect | $158.62 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $168.30 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $193.82 | ↓ -42% |
| First Choice Health Network | Commercial | $198.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Healthez | Commercial | $198.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $198.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellmark | HMO/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Ucare | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
| Primewest | Medicaid Managed Care | not published by hospital | — |
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Established Patient Office Visit (level 2) at other South-dakota hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sanford Clear Lake Medical Center | Clear Lake | $126.40 | $81.05 – $142.20 |
| Sanford Hospital Webster | Webster | $124.80 | $48.98 – $140.40 |
| Sanford Canton Inwood Medical Center | Canton | $105.60 | $45.14 – $118.80 |
| Sanford Vermillion Hospital | Vermillion | $166.40 | $40.71 – $124.20 |
| Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center | Aberdeen | $125.60 | $51.29 – $141.30 |